SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -North American Free Trade Agreement, John Maynard Keynes, Angela Davis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The breakdown of the post-wwii consensus on social values. The smooth functioning of post-industrial society"s major institutions: social dissent began to merge in various forms: Disenchantment with trudeau"s inability to create the just society. Students felt they needed answers to life"s big questions. Goal became to eliminate gender discrimination and inequality too: three key books resonated with women in social movements stimulated the movement that would seek to end gender inequality post wwii: The second sex simone de beauvoir. All further truths must be based on what a woman is: femininity and masculinity are not quite like two electrical poles. Woman represents only the negative defined by limiting: one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman criteria without reciprocity. Civilization as a whole produces women intermediate between male and eunuch. Children do not apprehend the universe through sexual parts. Up to the age of 12 a little girl is stronger than her brother and shows the same mental powers.