SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operational Definition, Cultural Relativism, Participatory Action Research
19 Feb 2013
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Rarely recognized back women as separate from black men. Criticized feminist theorizing that automatically positions households as places of patriarchal oppression for women. Hooks argues against universal assumptions about women"s experiences. Concerned with how knowledge is socially produced. Power created within social relationships, multidimensional, found everywhere and always at work. Knowledge can never be separated from relations of power. Discourses guide how we think act and speak: tell us how the world is and how it ought to be. Discipline is how we come to be motivated to produce particular realities. Power operated by producing some behaviours while discouraging others. Discipline (form of power) works through surveillance. Surveillance: acts of observing recording and training. Normalization: a social process by which some practices and ways of living are deemed normal and others abnormal. Connect power and knowledge through surveillance to guide us how we live our everyday lives. Problematizes the standard of equality based on sameness.
