SOCWORK 2BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Racial Hierarchy, Social Exclusion, Social Stratification

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 2BB3
• Professor: Gary Dumbrill

Document Summary

Social work 2bb3 anti-oppressive perspectives lecture 1. Course introduction & thinking critically about the social world. Shape the way we look at the world. Dominant social location vs marginalized social location: whiteness. Marginalized groups of people are often identified by their race. Seen as a different identity racial identity magnified. Social world is organized by this invisible norm. Make visible the invisible norm of whiteness and highlights its power in shaping. Society doesn"t benefit everyone equally: bourdieu. Social hierarchy is encoded in the body in a way of being and in a way of doing. Having to act white to pass symbolic dimension of power. Racial hierarchy is included in a way of being and doing. Highlight the symbolic dimension of power embedded in cultural meanings and ways of being. History of colonization divided the world into the east and the west. Gives power to the western culture and defines what is superior and inferior.