SOC220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Actions, Patricia Hill Collins, Intersectionality
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Lecture 3: exploring social inequality through a relational analytical framework. Toward a new vision: race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and. Sociology: the study of social relationships and society: social action (social behaviour): oriented towards others, performed taking others with consideration. Social interaction: social action that is reciprocated; an exchange of social actions; when people do things in relation to each other. Social relationship: a pattern of social interaction: social structure: patterns of social relationships that are relatively stable > includes the political, economic and cultural systems in place; organized around institutions. The lenses through which we will analyze material. The pillars of the analytical mode that we take. X y relationship: continuous change, mutually effect and change each other, cannot be understood without looking at the other; cannot be separated. Sees things not as a categories but dialectically related.
