SOC232H5 Lecture : week2 lecture notes
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50"s and 60"s loosening up by buying more in pursuit of our own self interest. Really important to motivate consumers = increasing tolerance in society in new kind of oppression, sense that our lives managed by the social system = no individuality as we are buying the same stuff. No longer assumption (if ever was one) that was harmonious system that work greats for everyone. Who"s doing what in society linked to this is question of identity. We believe in these socially constructed ideas like what is means to be a student and what are the norms of this eg. not speaking in class. Notion of who am i in this social constructed stuff? eg. race is made up socially constructed irish was non-white in the past. Stalinism two bad things socially constructed idea of ppl which ends up in their deaths by these two men: 1. Indiv and society (see notes above: 2.
