SOCI 2040 Lecture 18: Week 18 Smith and the situation of Women.docx
21 Apr 2015
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Key words for next week: bourdieu and social dominagtion. Begin from standpoint of people"s everyday lives and subjective experiences. What we have to do as sociologist is not to set abstract concepts but on how ordinary people enjoy. Ethnogrpaghy: people who are different from the mainstream (ethnos= people culture) , writing in description in people"s culture in how they act, think ii. Based on local and embodied experiences (not abstract) It is not abstract, tires not to be general it remains specific. It"s a form were on how institutions work iii. Goal: explain institutional relations that organize and control peoples everyday lives and experiences (relating of ruling: analysis of mental illness i. When using mainstream sociology you use statistics as an objective fact (showing scientific evidence). Using numbers to make us believe: conclusion. Their a neccsary gender difference in rates mental illness= objective fact. Smith wants to say there is different way looking at the world.
