SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: De Jure, Fallacy

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Jennifer Simmers

Document Summary

Individualistic fallacy : assumes racism belongs to the realm of ideas and prejudices. Racism is not always intentional; it exists in our habits and our social institutions. Labeling someone a racist treats racism as something aberrant and strange, whereas. Legalistic fallacy : assumes that abolishing racist laws effectively abolishes racism. But laws against car theft do not ensure that your car won"t get stolen. Brown v. board of education abolished de jure (by law) segregation in schools but they remain segregated, with some indication of a resurgence in school segregation. Tokenistic fallacy : assumes that the presence of people of color in influential positions. Ahistorical fallacy: assumes history is inconsequential: only what"s recent matters. However, all that is socially constructed is historically constructed. The united states is only 200 years old, so all of american history is recent history. Fixed fallacy : assumes racism is fixed and constant across time and space. However, racism is always changing and unquantifiable.