SOCI 2110H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Marianne Weber, Double Consciousness, Modernization Theory
5 Dec 2018
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Women"s special cultural tasks (weber, 1907: culture: any intellectually determined, purposeful working on & shaping of material given by nature (129, (cf. Double consciousness: always looking at one"s self through the eyes of others (117) They gave shared experiences a political presence (63: standpoint as ground from which discoveries are to be made (63), not just women"s: a. Double consciousness" (du bois) & bifurcated consciousness (smith: du bois, gilman, & smith may be linked through the notions of double consciousness". & of bifurcated consciousness": if one is not really allowed to participate in the social. Racial formation: race is not an essence, or an illusion, it is an unstable & decentered complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle (67, omi on racial formation. Beyond global sociology": adding history to structure: focuses on histories of 1) dispossession; 2) colonialism; 3) enslavement; 4) appropriation, go beyond global sociology", modernization theory vs. Multiple modernities: modernity didn"t start in europe &
