SOSC 3375 Study Guide - Secular Humanism, Securitization, Distinct Society

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3375
• Professor: Tanja Juric

Document Summary

Kymlica describes liberal multiculturalism as a process of citizenization where individuals use human rights language to filter and frame their identities and ethnocutural rights. This week"s focus: the origins of liberal multiculturalism, and how it is connected (or has evolved from) human rights polices and ideals. Continue by seeing: how human rights legislation functions as both a constraint and an aid in the development of ethnocutural rights in a diverse or globalized social context. Relationship between liberal multiculturalism and human rights. Focus on minority rights, recognition and representation, gives way to a new stage in the working out of the logic of human rights principles. (i. e. , preserving the rights and dignity of all human beings, regardless of religious background, race etc. by ensuring that their racial, ethnic, religious background is protected and respected. The origins of liberal multiculturalism : kymlica argues that human rights ideals inspire and justify multiculturalism.