SOC 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aversive Racism, Heteronormativity, Britishness

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 507
• Professor: Chris Powell

Document Summary

Ideology is a set of beliefs, perceptions, assumptions, and values that provide members of a group with an understanding and an explanation of their world. At another level, ideology provides a framework for organizing, maintaining, and transforming relations of power and dominance in society" . (henry & tator, p. 3) Social structure: a pattern in how social goods and social bads are distributed through a population over time. Social scientists disagree about the relation between these two. All of these claims were proven false by the mid-20th century. Essentialism: the reduction, in ideology, of any more or less complex whole to a fixed set of definitive traits. Essentialism about human groups ignores or glosses over differences and conflicts within the group ignores or glosses over changes in the group over time ignores the situational factors, including social processes, which account for particular qualities in the group.