SOC102H1 Lecture : February Notes
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18th c: historian benedict anderson coined the term imagined communities to describe people who group together around a common history and culture, sociologist w. i. Canada today: authoritarian personalities and racism, theodor adorno did important work on racism by studying authoritarianism, could what happened in germany with the nazis happen in. America: they found that people who are prejudice towards one group has a tendency to be prejudice or non prejudice. People who tend to be prejudice are anti-democratic, very conventional and inflexible and superstitious. Categories are imagined childhood imagined. Gender differences we perform cultural construct. Sociologists view any age group as an arbitrary category, just like race or gender. Philippe aries wrote book centuries of childhood one of the most influential works in the sociological study of childhood. Childhood started when parents realized their children needed education. The industrialization of work had profound effects on schooling and the change in schooling had a profound effect on childhood.
