SOC 705 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Policy, Kiwanis, Axial Tilt
17 May 2016
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Methods used by members of society to maintain order and promote predictability of behaviour; functionalist by definition. Mala prohibita: behaviours made criminal by statute despite lacking consensus on criminality (or lack thereof) of said behaviour. Differentiated by: consensual transaction, lack of apparent harm to others, low visibility, lack of complaints. History of racism in drug laws: moral crusade against the chinese for xenophobia. Deporting ah sin to save the white race: moral panic, racialization, and the. Extension of canadian drug laws in the 1920s. The process by which societies construct race as real, different and unequal in ways that matter to economic, political, and social life. Racialization involves: selecting characteristics as meaningful, sorting people based on these, attributing traits and characteristics to members of these groups, acting as if race shows class difference. Emily murphy published a series of articles in maclean"s magazines which marked the beginning of a sustained anti-drug campaign that targeted the.
