SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Human Taxonomy, Institutional Racism
18 Feb 2017
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Other sociological approaches to understanding race, power, and identity. Race: a social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers. Ethnic group: comprises of people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant; ethnic groups differ from one another in terms of language, religion, customs, values, ancestors, and the like. Racism: beliefs based on a visible characteristic of a group, such as skin color (or religious garment) Institutional racism: organizational policies and practices that systematically discriminate based on racial outliers* Prejudice: an attitude that holds judgment of a group based on pre-conceived characteristics. Scapegoat: a person/category of people blamed for someone else"s problems or actions. Changes in one"s social context can also eventually lead to changes in one"s racial and ethnic self- conception; perspectives on how to best negotiate ethnic self-conception vary. Paulo freire"s pedagogy of the oppressed (valuing transformation over tradition) was contested by gayatri spivak with the question can the subaltern speak? .
