SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Occupy Movement, Visible Minority, Environmentalism
4 Apr 2017
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Visible minority protection [ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality] Backlash movements: real women, victims" rights, canadian tax payers, fundamentalist religions, men"s rights, environmentalism, students. Targets: state and corporate power [left and right] Change in linked to objective and subjective elements: material conditions of class structure. Poverty, global corporate power: humana actions: how we respond to conditions. Example: occupy movement; idle no more: what are the objective and subjective elements. Collective not individual action: private trouble to public issues. Means to change via social power: economic and political power, ideological and coercive power. Change is continuous but at variable rates and is driven by conflict not idealism. Change is only likely to occur in right context: level of knowledge, motivating conditions [suicide bombings; infectious diseases; school shootings] Women as less than human: immorality: liars, temptresses, unruly bodies [hypersexual, impulsive, feebleminded and diseased. Growing political and economic instability: hyper-growth of profit, terrorism, working age under and unemployment.
