SOCI 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michel Foucault, Postcolonial Literature, Edward Said

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3430
• Professor: Secil Erdogan- Ertorer

Document Summary

Historical and social forces in the construction of race and ethnicity. Write the first think that comes to your mind wen you see each of the following words: Explain the relationship among discourse, language, knowledge and power. Define orientalism and discuss its relation to the representation of people from the orient. Explain the connection between orientalism, imperialism, colonization, and. Discuss the representations of the orient in the media. Demonstrate the relevance of orientalism in everyday life. Provide a language for talking about a topic. Dictates what can and cannot be said about a subject. Similar to ideology, but discourse it used as a means of disseminating an ideology. Doesn"t focus on the truth and false, Think about the discourse of the west and the rest . Creating discourse about the people from different parts of the world (like the east)