SOC 705 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Caucasian Race, Homicide, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 705
• Professor: Terry Roswell

Document Summary

Beliefs: if an individual in the dominant culture has racist beliefs those beliefs will have a large influence on the society as a whole. Values: if the values a society has built shows a blind eye to racism, racist perspectives can be more easily included in legal decision-making. Last chapter to read is law and social change, don"t have to read on civil disobedience, but we have to take notes of the presentation. Multiple choice, short answer, will be challenging, about applying knowledge and showing that you can make connection between course content; S15 of the charter of rights and freedoms. What is social stratification? a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy all societies rank people so that some have far greater opportunities and resources than others. The law and inequality criminal law defines/creates crime criminal law is not neutral or value-free criminal definitions (or intensive legal regualtion) reflect structure of power in society.