SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anthropocentrism, Musqueam Indian Band, Natural Units
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Annual general meeting for sociology students" association on september 25 in anso. The notion of race (as we understood it 50 years ago) really started with slavery, and the. Europeans were the first to use science to try to justify it. Ex: sunrise and sunset are deceiving labels, because the sun isn"t really rising or setting; it is the earth that is moving. So we basically use, on a regular basis, labels that are fundamentally dead wrong misplaced agency. When we first came up with these terms, they were correct, because we assumed that the earth was the centre of the universe. But even once we lost that assumption, we haven"t corrected our terminology yet. Ex: musqueam people have a different way of seeing/constructing what the universe is about; they don"t use cardinal directions, they describe directions in terms of the land and flow of water. We split time into natural as well as artificial units.
