SOC345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Postcolonialism, Indian Act, Participant Observation
3 Nov 2016
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Lecture 4: critical theories in relation to indigenous peoples. Ways in which aboriginals try to resist the system: change it from within (change the way we see social roles, do not engage in these institutions, create their own institutions. Technology can create divisions of social classes, without the technology it would mean that there is unequal access to knowledge and those with more knowledge will become higher authority while others become subordinate. It is a specific set of principles and theories that actively engage general racial theories of particular theories of particular times and or social contexts. Along with class and gender, it completes the main set of three oppressed social groups. To advance social justice ideas to the general public, and scholars, while also aiming to even out social inequalities. Study the intersections between different groups of minorities. Recognizing that race and racism work with and through gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and or nation as systems of power.
