SOC102H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 75 pages long!)
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Study guide: whiteness as it relates to: Skin colour , racism , white supremacy , dominant group , power : whiteness maintains control and power through: Foucault: nothing is more material, physical, comport than the exercise of power . Power is productive, constructing new capacities and modes of activity. Power is not an abstract force, but a practice: it proceeds in and through social groups and individuals. The kind of pleasure it produces involves personal identity, personal capacities, and a desire for change. Power exercised through whiteness accomplishes its relative superiority . We should learn what whiteness does rather simply acknowledging it negative effects on non-white groups: race: A socially constructed classification of persons on the basis of real or imagined physical characteristics. Race is not a natural occurrence, but a consequence of power relations. It is used to define and reinforce the unequal relations between dominant and subordinate groups: racism:
