Word: polanyi
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...Social Studies 10’s academic function is to equip students with the tools the department deems absolutely necessary to understanding one’s focus field—an interdisciplinary specialty area about which concentrators ultimately write their theses. Social studies concentrators are required to read Hayek, Polanyi and Marx in Social Studies 10 because exposure to major economic theories is considered necessary to confront issues relevant to all concentrators’ theses and focus fields. But, by not including gender theory or postcolonial theory on the course syllabus, the department communicates that these approaches are not essential...
...implicit statement about how the department understands and encourages its students to understand these topics. By including Marx but not including feminists on the syllabus, the department communicates that capitalism is an institution worthy of criticism, but sexism is not. Furthermore, allowing concentrators to read Hegel, Tocqueville and Polanyi, to name a few, without providing sociological criticisms of their work gives credence to their views, many of which are characterized by sexist, racist and imperialist beliefs...