SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Florian Znaniecki, Class Consciousness, Raymond Breton
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All societies display social inequality of varying kinds. Social inequalities are collectively imagined on the basis of a supposedly important natural difference (e. g. , skin colour) Societies vary in the degree and kinds of social inequality they display. Continuing struggle between practices of oppression and strategies of resistance. They also want to know how and why differentiations or social distinctions arise historically. One good place to start is with political theorist edward said and his book, Orientalism: western conceptions (middle east, persian empire) How do westerners, how do they think of easterners (middle easterners) The westerner sees the orient as separate, eccentric, backward, silently different, sensual and passive. The orient is always the other, the conquerable object of fantasy and the inferior party in any negotiation. When we look at other ethnic groups there is a very sharp distinction to say, they are not like us.
