KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sat, Meritocracy, Michel Foucault
5 Nov 2017
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It include the five question(who,what,where,when,why,how) that any critical thinker will ask. Social theorist whose research and activism has examined the intersecting power relations of race,gender,social class and sexulaity . She was elected as the 100th president of the american sociological association. and she the first african women to hold this position. She is suggesting that every individual must know what is their position of social change. Best defined by how much power they have over everyone and their connections. ,therefore we need new thoughts to make sense of the power relations in today"s world. Easy to confined the narrow definitions of race,class and gender and not see that theses categories are connected and they obscure the understanding of oppression. Audre lorde-stated that change start with the self and relationships that we have around us must be primary site for social change. Jennifer pozner: humor is used as an excuse to reinforce stereotypes.
