SOCB47H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: New York University Press, Michel Foucault, Queer Studies
11 Jan 2017
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Unpacking the centre: what is the centre . Nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. The modernist espouses the view that the physical word was not simply the creation of god, nor an unsolvable mystery beyond scientific understanding: structuralist. The belief that there are underlying, unifying structures, or rules, shaping social life and communication, and that these structures can be studied through objective scientific method: postmodernist. An outlook rejecting the enlightenment belief that, through human reason and research, humanity was on the road of progress. Instead, history was conceptualized as fragmented, discontinuous, and without a larger purpose. A postmodern approach, as practiced in the social sciences. Poststructuralists reject grand narratives, and instead conceptualize social life as fractured and discontinuous. Research is best pursued through localized studies that reveal the minutiae of social meaning and organization.
