SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Double Consciousness, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution

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

Document Summary

Also historical: we learn from past experiences, and how issues have evolved overtime, might have replicated the same mistakes in the past, historical. Feminisms in the 20 th century: the politics of difference : think about the 19th century and even the 18th century, women were gaining more rights, rude awakening at the end of 18th century, french revolution. The knowledge of difference was constructed/produced through time and logic. Rise of science, overthrow religion: industrial revolution. Shift from religion to science (i. e. : doctors) Women"s" roles were redistributed, entered public space, etc. Free competition, capitalism causes massive imbalance. Taking labour of working class and turning into profit. Dark sides of capitalism: beginning of 20th century, russian revolution, wwi and wwii, especially wwii (1950) Wwii an attempt to reproduce/recreate liberalism. Usa liberalism for canada and the rest of the western hemisphere. British gave the baton to usa and now usa is a superior nation.