SOCI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White Privilege, Racialization, Civil Religion
13 Mar 2017
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In order to have complete sovereignty (absolute) the state has to monopolize the means of violence. Which means the only person that can enact the law is the state (police, jury, judge). That just doesn"t work: 2 social factors that is part of the establishment of the united states: Race and ethnicity: ethnicity refers to the distinct cultural norms and values of a social group. Oversimplified, fixed and inflexible ideas about a specific group. Discrimination behavior that denies resources or rewards to members of a. Beliefs and attitudes that one racial category is inherently superior or inferior to another. Lecture notes: post-racial society, overt v. covert, symbolic, color-blind. Systemic racism: white racism is: endemic and foundational, not simply an incidental, Undesirable component of an otherwise healthy american society. Racial prejudices, stereotypes, emotions, acts of discrimination, and ideologies embedded in the fabric of american institutions continue to protect and reproduce an in egalitarian system of white social privileges and unjust enrichment.
