SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Edward Said, Sony Music Entertainment, Phenotype

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Nayrouz Abu Hatoum

Document Summary

Orientalism and race, thinking, muslim communities in western democracy. A professor of comparative lit in columbia uni. Work mainly focused on cultural theory, literacy critique, and politics of representations of islam and the arab world. Fixes the other in a particular image. His book orientalism formed a substantial shift in academic studies of power and representation of islam and the arab world. Orientalism is a western (academic) discourse of the orient. It"s a style of thought in which there are fundamental distinctions between ontological (what we see as existing in reality) and the epistemological (the way we understand or know that reality) conception of the orient. Not connected to realty, imagination of what exists. Style of thought is based on strong distinctions that are structured between orient (east) and the occident (west). The orient helped define the occident (through binary oppositions: the logic of us or them.