SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Web, Nomothetic, Pierre Bourdieu
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Soc 101 - lecture 3 - research methods. Post - structuralist: functionalist as common to the social sciences as a result of globalization. Sets itself apart from the four other major theories, functionalist have something to say about every topic. Rejects universalism and essentialism by challenging the idea of fixed structures and meanings. The words: gender, race, class, freedom these concepts mean something completely different now. The look at the history and the concepts. Ideas that are different today and change over time. Rejects the notion that ideas, individual groups, institutions, and practices have a core, stable, true essence that defines them for all time and all places. Moves away from seeking universal social laws, focus instead on how categories come into being and come to be seen the way they are. Key figure: michel foucault & pierre bourdieu (are incredible influential across all social sciences)
