SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tragic Mulatto

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Sean Springer

Document Summary

> hugely influential british sociologist popularized the racist belief that western societies. > social darnwinist, spencer justified his claims by noting the west had science, > he coi(cid:374)ed the prhase (cid:862)sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)al of the fittest(cid:863) > refers to ones perceived membership in a larger group based on attachment to an actual or possible homeland. >race : categorizes people based on biological or and/physical characteristics, assigns superior traits to colonizing white and inferior traits to colonized and enslaved peoples, race became a tool that justified inhumane practices. Herbet spencer (cid:449)ere (cid:373)ore co(cid:373)plex a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed tha(cid:374) so called (cid:862)pri(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e societies(cid:863) industry, and technology. > unexamined and prejudice assumptions racist beliefs that affect political policies. > is the portrayal of all non western cultures as uncivilized. > often, it romanticizes non-western cultures as simplistic, undeveloped, and pure. > more negative portrays make non westerners out to be barbaric savages. > justifies the colonization and exploitation of conquered lands.