SOC 2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Thomas Kuhn, Normal Science, Donna Haraway

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2312
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

Critiques of political socio: over-emphasis on the state, anthropocentric, focuses on human social relations, ignores interactions w/ non-humans (animals, environment, technology, missing methods for examining new forms of political engagement. Non-human social actors: donna haraway argues that non-human entities are significant aspects of social relations, relationships w/ various technologies, pets & other things", latour & haraway both argue that there"s a need to examine relationships beyond human-human interaction. Actor-network theory: latour argues that sociologists should shift their unit of analysis from just human interactions to the networks of relationships. Interdependency between states, global institutions, & emphasis on free trade have all contributed to a distribution of power away from the individual nation-state: power relations based on the nation-state"s relationship w/ the global market economy. Opportunity for resistance: democracy from below as a possibility with globalization (see della. Porta: example of 1999 wto protests and other sites of resistance to homogenization another world is possible.