SOCA01H3 Lecture 4: Introduction to Sociology; Week 4.docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCA01H3
• Professor: Francisco Villegas

Document Summary

Indigenous peoples: this has included rewriting and deconstructing many of the racist and dehumanizing ideas built into the discourse, practices, and policies regarding indigenous peoples, the lived experiences of imperialism and, we must be careful in how we write and question the purpose and content. colonialism contribute another dimension to the ways in which terms like imperialism" can be understood (p. 19) Imperialism and heroes: while some heroes are glorified for their discoveries , in indigenous writings they are not so admired, furthermore, in each place, after figures such as columbus and cook had long departed, there came a vast array of military personnel, imperial administrators, priests, explorers, missionaries, colonial officials, artists, entrepreneurs, and settlers who cut a devastating swathe, and left a permanent wound, on the societies and communities who occupied the lands named and claimed under imperialism (p. 21, these interventions were rationalized through the use of science, religion, and political discourse.