SOC 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Forced Conversion, Intersectionality, W. M. Keck Observatory
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Something that has no physical or biological basis in reality, but nevertheless is an invention of society and has the power to impact our lives because we make it socially. It is an idea - with varying and changing definitions over time. -> shapes our perception of the objective world and as such becomes real in the social world) Slavery and extraction of natural resources was part of the european colonial project in the western hemisphere from the very beginning. Columbus kidnapped and enslaved native ta nos, forced into harsh physical labor looking for gold on the island for columbus to bring back to. Forced conversion to christianity was also part of the colonial project from the very beginning. A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to preserve racial group inequity.
