SOSC 3375 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Post-Structuralism, Essentialism, Structural Violence

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3375
• Professor: Reese Simpkins

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The ontological, epistemological, and cosmological framework through which the world appears to people. In other words, i argue that lifeworlds begin with creation stories. Of course, within a people, individual persons will always have unique perspectives; none is determined by their lifeworld. This is to say that lifeworld establishes a range of possibility, not a set of determinate ends (p. 850, note 14) (background assumption, the way we make sense of the world) How canadian law works for and against indigenous people. Colonialism is alive today through constitutional law. Canadian constitutionalism, which is a species of liberal constitutionalism, is the world beneath canadian law. Disconnect b/w canadian law and indigenous law. All systems of law live within and are generated through particular worlds. Canadian law needs to relate with indigenous legal orders. Understanding indigenous lifeworld before one can understand indigenous law. The ontological, epistemological, and cosmological framework through which the world appears to people.