HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Affirmative Action, Racial Profiling, Ethnomethodology

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Livy Visano

Document Summary

Family providing protection and provision but violent. The actors make meaning for us to understand the story. The chapter is about how youth are represented by these actors in our society. Media is a powerful actor and knowledge producers are powerful ones. Police and forces maintain law and order. Next week focus on those considered as the true problem creators in society, youth as offenders and devils. Riding hood was passively giving herself away. The press is powerful tool for those powerful. Powerful people use apparatus to control or authenticate real knowledge or actual words. Police is another tool used by the powerful. Factual and fictional are used to representative youth offenders in the media by police. Binary opposition and defining boundaries of right and wrong. By setting boundaries we are separating them. Fictional and factual look at young people as disease or virus and rid of them via strict laws. Actors are moralizing groups, those with knowledge like experts.