POLS 3560 Lecture Notes - Power (Social And Political), Ananya (Actress), Problem Solving

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3560
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Pols 3560 fall/winter 2011/2012 ananya mukherjee-reed. Lecture 3 towards a framework for analysis: mainstream versus critical. A framework is a system of ideas or conceptual structures that help us see the social world, understand it, explain it, and change it. A framework guides our thinking, research, and action. It provides us with a systematic way of examining social issues and providing recommendations for change. ". A framework consists of basic assumptions about the nature of the social world and how it works and about the nature of people and how they act. For example, some people assume that society is basically harmonious and that harmony results from a set of shared values. Others assume that society is in conflict and that conflict is rooted in class, race and gender struggles over power and access to and control over resources. ". Historical change (relationship between theory and history).