SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Essentialism, Eugenics, Social Darwinism
4 Oct 2017
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Lecture 4- looking back at the law: socio-legal history. Law in society: legal culture and consciousness: discover when and by whom the law is not used, how legality is experienced and understood by ordinary people as they engage, avoid, or resist the law and legal meanings. Social categories: race, gender, class, able-boddines, sexual identity, citizenship. The interaction of different aspects of social identity (eg. race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, age, etc. ) and the impact of systems of domination and oppression (racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, etc. ) Scientific racism: historical and contemporary scientific practices used to support the classification and ranking of human populations into human races. Morton"s ranking of races by cranial capacity: modern caucasian group, mongolian group, malay group, native africans, american-born negroes, morton produced the results anticipated in an age when few. Caucasians doubted their innate superiority: whites above indians, blacks at the bottom: all races" have approximately equal capacities.
