SOC SCI 89 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Epicenter, Standard Deviation
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All of the forces (i. e. , social, cultural, etc) that exist outside of the individual and exert an impact on the individual. The capacity of the individual to exert itself on its surroundings, to control its own. Individuals create the social and the social sets the parameters for human agency. How does the tension between structure and agency relate to social policy? destiny. We assume that our idea of the normal is correct or factually based. See them as unchanging and containing certain essential characteristics. We often fail to see how things are constructed . Knowledge and truth do not exist independently. Systems of power produce knowledge and truth. People are subject to and exercise power. People decide the objects of knowledge and who has the authority to speak about particular forms of knowledge. What is important becomes apparent in discursive practices. Important things do not exist apart from social intercourse.
