Complicating Key Concepts Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
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Power
A
- Weber’s concepts of authority and legitimacy (ascribed vs achieved)
- Hierarchy
- Powerless contribute to powerlessness
- Global hegemony (secularism, capitalism)
2
Q
Identity
A
- Self (“moi” by Mauss) vs group view
- Relational and Processual
- Ascribed or achieved
- Butler’s theory of gender performativity
3
Q
Society
A
- Radcliffe Browne’s structural functionalism
- Social Control
- Who decides organisation
4
Q
Social Relations
A
- Agency
- Reflect power and group expectation
- Act as microcosm for society
5
Q
Culture
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- Learnt, shared, symbolic, (mal)adaptive, changing
- Learning culture is integral to being recognised as a person in a culture
- Bourdieu theory of practice (cultural capital)
6
Q
Belief and Knowledge
A
- Who decides belief vs knowledge
- Causes alleviates/entrenches suffering
- Hegemony
- Structual functionalism or neomarxism
7
Q
Symbolism
A
- Subjective
- Hegemony
8
Q
Materiality
A
- impact social relation/identity/power
- sensory experince of individual
9
Q
Change
A
- Inter and intra-societal change
- Who controls change and how people resist it
