SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Hegemony, Strange Sensation, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
Document Summary
Week 12: class, race, and the color line". Social change is slow; frederick douglas and abraham lincoln. Dubois and the naacp; race consciousness; the concept of the negro". Dubois"s debate with booker t. washington over way to get civil rights. Illuminating systemic racism: methodology: compiling evidence of discrimination, identifying the social atmosphere of prejudice. A different mental attitude, moral standard, and economic judgment shown towards negroes than toward most other folk". Dubois"s concern is primarily in how hegemonic culture is experienced. He goes on to analyze this experience from two points of view: bottom up (from the marginalized person"s point of view, top down (privileged white person"s point of view) The experience of hegemonic culture from the top-down perspective. Hegemonic culture is experienced by its beneficiaries as an ownership, as our way of life", a sense of freedom of subjectivity, in which the majority of social positions are unmarked. Compare with durkheim"s modern rituals" that promote organic solidarity.
