KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stereotype, Patricia Hill Collins

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

We should be very careful when we are looking for information. Social theorist whose research, scholarship and activism have intersecting power relations of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation. She is suggesting that we need to be aware how to do social change. Every time you blame society, you are blaming ourselves. Professor collins asks who has power in our society. In other words, how are power relations identified in today"s world. Seems like people with more money are more powerful. Example: oprah windfrey, powerful african american female. Thus, the need for new thoughts, new paradigms to make sense of the power relations in today"s world. I am more oppressed than you easy mistakes to be confined to narrow definitions of race, class and gender and not to see that these categories intersect and obscure the understanding of oppression. We should aim for a better place for all of us .