SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heterosexuality, Musical Chairs, Panopticon

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1140
• Professor: Cameron Johnston

Document Summary

Sosc 1140 lecture 2 social construction of reality: what we understand as real is socially constructed and isn"t the same for people in other cultures: approaches to understanding society, 1. Anderson-- e. g. old people in your family telling u homosexuality is unnatural because they think heterosexuality is an objective reality forming path in the woods social norms, institutions created by us, once established, control our behaviour. Ideology: history of ideas and critically- a set of ideas that protect the dominant interests in society and maintain the status quo, status quo means to stay the same.