SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnocentrism, Racial Profiling, Scientific Method

• School: Trent University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1002H
• Professor: Balfour Gillian

Document Summary

Midterm review review chapters 1-3: our personal power (proximal) is relative to social conditions and institutional forces (distal) Indigenous peoples vs oil industry: status gives identity and power. Social change as a dialectical: material and social world inter-related, change is constant, change is quantitative then qualitative. Eugenics: science as morality: values of nationalism and ethnocentrism reinforced via scientific method of eugenics. Forcible sterilization act (alberta and bc: eugenics as legal and medical practice that protected white middle class. Seduction of science: genetic inferiority as cause of social problems. Herbert spencer: social darwinism: cultural inferiority, social problems (crime, poverty, addiction) result of failed adaptation to social environment. Colonial practices of enslavement of black peoples and genocides of aboriginals over-policing and excessive. Racial profiling of bodies and spaces of aboriginal or black communities christianity and science dominant cultural norms and values components of culture: culture: Means of survival in the physical world: symbols, values. Material culture culture is learned, shared, and integrated.