SOCY 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Productive Forces, Geopolitics, Human Development Index
6 Apr 2017
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In what ways do historically racial formations inform contemporary social formations: self-identification is not necessarily how you would identify individual; possibly about your social experiences. Essentialism: identifying universal attributes that make something what it is. Good sociology vs bad sociology: esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h that (cid:862)e(cid:374)a(cid:271)les (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) i(cid:374)sights i(cid:374)to global-lo(cid:272)al i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ships(cid:863) tho(cid:373)as and clarke p 3, need to explore global, local interrelationships, apply this logic to your essay, no (cid:862)i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)people toda(cid:455)(cid:863) Race as a social construction: (cid:862)ne(cid:449) fo(cid:396)(cid:373)s of su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455)(cid:373)o(cid:448)e us (cid:271)e(cid:455)o(cid:374)d (cid:396)a(cid:272)is(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:894)tho(cid:373)as a(cid:374)d cla(cid:396)ke, p. 3(cid:895), (cid:862) a(cid:272)ial su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ities(cid:863) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ples, postcolonial subjects, new orleans. If we see race as a social construction: we see how racial formations shape global processes, we see ho(cid:449) (cid:862)histo(cid:396)i(cid:272)all(cid:455) e(cid:374)t(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)hed (cid:396)a(cid:272)ial hie(cid:396)a(cid:396)(cid:272)hies(cid:863) a(cid:396)e a p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)t of glo(cid:271)alizatio(cid:374), we see ho(cid:449) (cid:396)a(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)e(cid:395)ualities a(cid:396)e ofte(cid:374) so(cid:272)iall(cid:455) (cid:396)ep(cid:396)odu(cid:272)ed. We take (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge o(cid:448)e(cid:396) ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) se(cid:396)iousl(cid:455). (thomas and clarke, p. 1, 5, 7).
