SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hegemony, Ethnocentrism, Racialization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Whiteness can only tell you what it is by telling you what it is not. We give a social meaning to these things on their own, they mean nothing. These are ethnic signifiers cultural characteristics: religion traditions. What is racialization? race is not just one catergory race is a social process your life is a social process through which you become racialized. Make sense of the world, to organize and make sense gendering and sexing the body done in the context of race and ethnicity. 1989 robert miles wrote a book called racism: created the term and coined the phrase, racialization argued that race was a bionary chaterory or a box it was a social process. What he highlited was this was a complex social process, by which you become racialized social process by which you so called real or imagined physiological characteristics, became imbued with social meanings of either, superiority or inferiority.