SOCSCI 2P03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Visible Minority, Graphic Violence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SOCSCI 2P03
• Professor: Geraldine Voros

Document Summary

There are many pressures in a capitalist economy urging them to substitute consumption of material goods and activities which create pseudo connections for real interaction with people. There are many products, whole industries in some cases, designed to sell almost exclusively to boys. Generally, boys undermine their ability to form intermit relationships. Advertisements and other media: the ability to decode advertisements and critically analyze publicity and (cid:373)arketi(cid:374)g of a(cid:374)y ki(cid:374)d is esse(cid:374)tial to our so(cid:374)"s ability to withsta(cid:374)d (cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulatio(cid:374) by corporations, people vs. products. What you have rather than who you are: done at the expense of visible minorities and women, we have to decode this commercialized world and critically analyze it. Corporate exploitations: when young men realize how they are being exploited and how their purchases are tied to the exploitation of other people, many begin to question how the economic system works and who it works for.