SOC 656 Study Guide - Final Guide: Peggy Mcintosh, Critical Race Theory, Visible Minority

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 656
• Professor: Janna Eggebeen

Document Summary

Lecture 6: tribes ethnicity and race in dress and fashion. Insurgent ethnic identity: organizes itself socially and politically to further the goals of that particular community: world dress vs. ); associate with luxury, rare materials (special, outside the normal: color blindness: illegal to discriminate against colour and race; pretending that race doesn"t exist. Part of human society; deviancy is a normal part of society and performs essential social functions (encourages social change); dominant power can maintain the status quo (conflict theorists) Assumptions of deviance: consensus about right and wrong, sociology or science can do something to make people better. Labeling theory (howard becker, 1963): symbolic interactionalist perspective: society creates rules; not actions, but labels that make those actions deviant. In one context, an action can be deviant but in another it is moral (ex. Control theory (travis hirschi, 1969): also called as social bond theory.