SOC150H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cd59, Social Inequality, False Consciousness
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Looking at meaning that people attach to everything that"s around them. It is a school, an approach, that studied process by which our consciousness is impacted by our environment, our history, How we see the world, what makes us who we are and makes us unique. How practices of oppression can be much more visible to those who face discrimination that those who do not. People are expected to act a certain way. We have idea that as little kids, we"re expected to behave in particular ways, gendered expectations. As we get older, that impacted our experiences. The way society see others is how we see ourselves. We see individuals around us and classify them as gendered and racialized. The consciousness of people engaging in racial profiling is racialized. There are patterns that run along racial lines that matter and need to be talked about. Discussion of post-modernism: idea that there is no objective knowledge, but all.
