SOWK 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Identity Politics, Neoliberalism, Individualism
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Thursday january 25th, 2018: structural/anti-oppressive practice, systemic forms of discrimination, aop, resistance, history, the present day society is composed of many present day issues (social divisions that create inequality). Capitalism what is the least everyone can get of this. It argues that the free market fights for income distribution, the market will take care of us. The government needs to step aside, and let us take care of ourselves. Looking at the private sector, as it is the key to seeing the social division: postmodernism (other versions of knowledge. One persons concept of reality, is not the only type of reality. For instance, that race does not exist, as it is a social construct. That it is a material reality: rejects identity politics movements, privileging of voices of particular identities. It tends to look at power, as one"s own status as a practitioner.
