SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Ethnocentrism, Intersectionality, Permanent Revolution

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1502
• Professor: Amar Wahab

Document Summary

Readings: heywood and drake, introduction to third wave agenda: being feminist, doing feminsim (ck, taore, a slam on feminism in academia (ck, hall, from roots" to routes (g&k) Now people who belong to more than one world, speak different languages and inhabit different identities, have more than one home and translate between cultures interlocking histories and cultures learned to live with and speak from differences. Represent new kinds of identities new ways of being someone in the modern world. Ex-colonized, marginalized people, etc are beginning to think of themselves of their identities and their. Diaspora as an alternative framework for thinking about imagined communities. Critical perspective: a rebellion against the authority and dominance of modernist/scientific thought (i. e. against the binary) Anti-positivist: no one, fixed "t"ruth; we must unfix the truth. Anti-evolutionary: i. e. what passes as universal" is really based on ethnocentric standards that function as a yardstick for self dominance;