SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: University Of California, Santa Cruz, Neo-Nazism, White Nationalism
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Commonsense: different associations used to connect individual characteristics, behaviours, tastes, and attitudes to a person"s perceived membership of a group, often on the basis of physical appearance. Sociological: a social construction that divides humans into different and unequal categories on the basis of social, economic, and political forces. Conflict theory -- no mention of physical characteristics. Focus on social structures, macro structures, and power. Sociological critique of race : race = social construct, social construct -- human beings actively create social life and social meanings, vs essentialism: attributing social constructs to biological or genetic causes (biology = destiny, e. g. Practiced more in animal breeding and farming nowadays. E. g. in canada, many indigenous peoples, people with physical or mental disabilities, and gays and lesbians were forced to sterilization: most western countries practiced government enforced eugenics. Subjective belief -- doesn"t matter about the biological aspects, it matters what people believe they identify with.
