SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Potlatch, False Consciousness, Antonio Gramsci
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Law as rhetoric: through the law, through understanding the law, the idea that europeans are superior to salvage races. Easy for someone to say homicide tripled within 1992 and 1993 but there are times when we know that the homicide rate fluctuates rapidly. If mapped out over 20-year period, will see relatively stable. Be suspicious immediately when you see dates especially in context of loo"s law. How does the characteristics attributed to the other refract contrasting characteristics of the self: what does the self" look like in canada (historically and now?, what does the other" look like in canada. What gets defined as free speech? (hint: not the burqa) This is all important to understanding the other and sustaining those divisions. Jamaican criminal (1990s) different context of crime when the jamaican"s seen as the other, not telling us anything about the jamaican culture at all but about the self". Loo gives us a framework to understanding them.
