SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Metanarrative, Post-Structuralism, Social Darwinism
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Ability to control people; economic religious militaristic. Power is not natural; we cannot understand it outside of the social relationship that it is embedded. We can"t understand power outside of our own situation. We cant assume that everyone is natural because there would be no recourse for resistance: different theoretical approaches to power. Capitalism= economic system that involves 2 classes: capitalists-own means of production, working class- sell labour for wages. Power as a pyramid; top capitalists; bottom workers. Why wouldn"t the masses seek equality: organization of consent. Theory as a grand narrative ; seek to explain everything: e. g. understand power relations through an analysis of class and exploitation. Michel foucault: relationship between knowledge and power; intimately related. What we understand as knowledge is produced, not neutral or inherent. Power relations (who is in power, what ideas hold. True in a society) affect the types of knowledges produced. What is normalization: when something that is produced becomes natural.