SOC 101 Lecture 2: SOC101 - Class 2A

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Professor James Parisot

Document Summary

Eurocentrism: modernity: the idea of the modern world, colonialism: european countries taking over the savaged countries, minds and podesy in bolivia: the major parts of silver and gold production. Where spain took advantage of bolivian people to gain gold or silver: europeans have made up the idea of race. Some have been conquered and some are the conquerors. White is superior and color is inferior: the rise of colonialism and race were together. Europeans said to themselves that something in us, europeans, must superior if we are able to colonize these countries of color: the colonized were underdeveloped because the colonizers skew the country to suit their own needs. The modern civilization casts itself as a superior, developed civilization (something tantamount to unconsciously upholding a eurocentric position). The aforementioned superiority makes the improvement of the most barbaric, primitive, coarse people a moral obligation (from gin s de sep lveda until kant or hegel).