SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Interlocking, Racialization, Edward Said

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Purnima George

Document Summary

Reading media and popular culture through imperialism and colonialism. Thought through how gender and sexuality intersect/interlock with other categories of analysis. Examined through other categories of analysis and how it impacts one identity. Introduce the concept of interlocking system of oppression vs. additive or essentialist identities. Began to unpack the notion of privilege and social location. Interrogated how power is operating through the media. Through the concept of hegemony and ideology. What is e. said arguing the operations of culture and its contribution to imperialism. Said, defines imperialism as the means, the practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan center ruling a distant territory (p. 9) Colonialism is almost always a consequence of imperialism, in the implanting of settlements on distant territory (pg. 9) However, as doyle states, empire is a relationship formal or informal, in which one state controls the effective political sovereignty of another political society.