SOCI 6350 - Marginality and the “Other”: A Sociology of Persecution and State-Making

Institution:

Tulane University of Louisiana

Subject:

Sociology

Description:

Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. This course examines the role of ideologies justifying persecution itself in the construction and change of national states. Four interrelated and interactive processes are analyzed: cultural construction of pollution, danger, and taboo; marginalization of stigmatized “Othersâ€; the roles of these processes in construction and change in national states; the responses to “Others†to the previously described processes.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.tulane.edu

Phone Number:

(504) 865-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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