SOC 705 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, Indian Act
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Definition: racialization: a process by which social significance is given to certain biological features. Definition: nation-state: a historically specific international legal entity in which the continuously imagined boundaries of a common identity coincide with territorial and government sovereign authority. Gender inequality: thus to the extent that the female dangerous subject threatens the nation-state through reproduction, she is constructed as a future, not immediate, danger. Critical race theory: attempts to rectify the wrongs of racism while acknowledging that racism is an inherent part of modern life. 2: minorities experience and see the world differently (symbolic interactionaism, intersectionality. Informal and formal social control: informal social control. The treatment of those racialized minorities by other members of their communities: formal social control. Laws enacted by the state and other agencies that specifically only apply to a particular group of people. Laws dictating the types of jobs japanese-canadians could have.