SOC205H5 Lecture 6: SOC205 - Lecture 6.docx
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Positivist: look at individual characters or cultural aspect of the individuals (they are more likely to be deviant due to culture, labeling, examine how over history native people have been labelled as a problem minority, extensive disparities over the criminal justice system, marxist, perceptions of native people serve a beneficial function to the dominant race. Downplay the genocide and poverty against native people: a legal system are specifically designed to support dominant groups in society, ignores what the state did to the individual, how state practices force institutionalization of native children and all the negative experiences that occurred from this, ignoring state for cultural reproduction, and took viable land from first nations people, international red cross; some northern areas are third world conditions and we need internatiol aid to help the native people in the northern areas, our legal system ignores how the state is implicated in fostering poverty, state crimes and genocide.
