SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Racism, Social Constructionism, Racialization
20 Oct 2017
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Thinking about gender and race in socio - legal studies. Keywords: 1, biological essentialism race & gender, social constructionism, cultural racism, criminalization, racialization, racism, gender, sex, sex gender, anti racist feminism, law as a gendering strategy, post-structuralist feminism. Law = racializing, gendering process > produces difference race and gender. Law operates to different kinds of people: comack- 2 understandings of race, as biological -innate (our bodies creates essentialism, a social construction. Social construction = knowledge produced through socio- historical processes. Chan 2 approaches to criminology: positivist. Race as: fixed, socio demographic variable, based on criminogenic properties (racialized bodies, critical. Race as: product of social interactions, race has meaning if we attach meaning. Gender and the law 1350 notes: fluid and changeable nature of race. September 27, 2017: race as culture/ cultural racism social constructionalist- racial bodies get reduced to their culture.
