SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Post-Structuralism, Metanarrative, Social Change
14 Apr 2016
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Soc 100 september 16, 2014: postmodern perspecive. Transiioning from manufacturing products to producing ideas and images (p. 16). Transiion has led to two forms : scepical postmodernism: social change created condiions of chaos and meaninglessness. Idea that we live in an angst, overstressed society. Sirred up by economic change: airmaive: overarching theories/worldviews cannot explain reality. Therefore, there are quesions about what can be known. Poststructuralism: suggests knowing" is discursive and in crisis (airmaive. : becoming important in the social sciences. Analyzing the condiions for the possibility of knowing. Trying to ind out how we can atempt to know something. Very pervasive, unable to do sociology w/out discourse. Rejecion of metanarraives" because they cannot explain reality; therefore, there is a crisis of beliefs, knowledge, and poliical-social acion. Metanarraives: totalizing" explanaions jusifying a paricular point of view or set of power arrangements that are presented as true and should not be challenged. Tries to be all thing, to all people: eg.
