WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Intersex, Arab Spring, Cultural Assimilation
4 Dec 2013
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Pays attention to differences at the same time as it promotes connections. Social media helps spread movements, tool to help facilitate change: arab spring, facebook helped the youths get their word out on a mass scale. The transnational pays attention to inequalities and differences that rise from new forms of globalization as well as older histories of colonialism and racism. Because it pays attention to inequalities and differences, it is an important way to think about social justice. We will have to deal with: poverty, cultural assimilation, mental illness, welfare cuts, labour, racial profiling, the prison system, disability. Science is the process of discovering objective facts/truth. Some people argue that science is actually the process of invention. Constructionists argue that we don"t discover reality, in many cases we actually invent it. Science is the product of the engagement between the scientist"s psyche and the events to which the scientist is attentive, caplan & caplan 1994.
