SOCB47H3 Study Guide - Metanarrative, Social Inequality, Class Conflict
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Everyday practices as an important entry point to organization of power. Connection between - everyday practices and the social organization of power. Everyday practices are a part of people"s commonplace and taken for granted activities. Everyday activities reflect, reproduce and at times challenge power relations. When you choose to not question your everyday practices it means you are reproducing a power structure. When you question it, you are going against the power structure. Focus on patterns of social inequality not just stratification: focusing on the relationship that produce and maintain the stratification of power, one group that looks at stratification. They look at the pyramid distribution of control, money example: one group looks at social inequality. Relationship stratification of power structure, political example. Explore the taken for granted features of dominant forms of social organization: positions of social advantage, see the world through that social location, figuring out the stuff that is unmarked and unnamed.
