SOCIOL 2E06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chauvinism, Dialectic, Ethnocentrism
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Sociology 2e06 racial and ethnic group relations. Audrey smedley (2007) antecedents of the racial worldview . Fifteenth century: northern europeans and peoples of the british. Isles had very limited knowledge of the world information: much of that knowledge came from spiritually-based, scripturally based knowledge, fairy tales and myths, ancient writing. An evolution of a racial world view, prior to the moment of colonialism. Southern europeans less isolated: complex network of trade and travel between peoples of. Western arica and the sudaneze zone, the easern. Mediterranean, the saudi arabian peninsula, east african trading cities, the iranian plateau, and parts of india and china. People of spain, portugal, southern italy had experienced much more contact with outside people, as apposed to their northern. Enclosure movement: a different set of values; values which promoted individualism, enabled the unrestricted accumulation of wealth private property, transformation of communal lands, forests, meadows in.