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

SOCI 6350 Marginality and the Other: A Sociology of Persecution and State-Making
Marginality and the Other: A Sociology of Persecution and State-Making
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 Others; the roles of these processes in construction and change in national states; the responses to Others to the previously described processes.
Pre-requistites: SOCI 3040 and SOCI 3220 or approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3