SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Constructionism, Racialization, Intersectionality

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Reese Simpkins

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Lecture 3: gender and race in socio legal studies. One hand we have idea of the law and impartial, neutral, just, while the other hand: we have evidence that tells us that actually law marginalizes a whole host of differences based on race, class gender, etc. Ovl is a myth, at best goal/idea law doesn"t really work this way. Reciprocal relationship between law and society: law in society determines how it is able to function. Social constructionism: cultural racism, criminalization, racialization, racism, gender, sex, relationship between sex/gender, anti racist feminism, law as gendering strategy, post culturalism feminism. Socio-legal approaches to race: law= racializing, gendering process which produces difference. Intersectionality: it produces race and gender, comack: 2 understandings of race, as biological (biological essentialism) (myth) -essential characteristics that are based on biology, social construction, chan: 2 approaches to criminology: Criminalization of race: criminalization = the process by which behavior and individuals are transformed into crime and criminals, ex: immigrants.