ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hijab, Castration, Chromosome
10 Dec 2015
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Social constructionism: (the social construction of reality) - moving into social science. Concepts of others actions- habituated as roles- institutionalized as perceptions. Ex: carrying firewood, and embedded in a web of expectations of people and ourselves. Process of making something socially and symbolically constructed (kinship, language, gender) seem like fact of nature . Everything that we learn: culture is mobile and flexible: we can mold and change it. Naturalizing power: ways in which difference of power are made to seem natural or. Ideology: powerful position of an elite position of class, gender, powerful idea of people should behave or act or be, to be socially acceptable. Cross culturally, within time is has not been the dominant within the given power. Drag is an exaggerated look, she is using that to take her lyrics all things can be shifted and move. The diversity of bodies, ways of being embodied.
