SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Privilege, Heteronormativity
16 Oct 2016
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SOC525 Week 4 Feb. 5, 2016
Representations of race
Overview: race in relation to ideology
- Stuart hall on ideology and race
- Overt and inferential racism
- Be able to say something about your interpretation about it
- Race as floating signifier- slippery thing in culture
- Discourse-uses discourse in relation to ideology (not on mid term)
1. Hall and Ideology:
- Building on Marxist idea: once there are formed we can think of them as a lens for
looking at things. It frames/constitutes our consciousness
- Coincides ith )uzek’s idea elieig efoe ou eliee
- He draws on Marxist idea: ideologies produce certain forms of consciousness. People
socially construct ideologies (products of consciousness). Ideologies are constructive of
our consciousness. Ex. An ideology in our social world that frames how we think:
Patriarchy: the male is the dominant person in society, ex2. Little kid grown up in a
society where he is introduced to heteronormative relationships, you have the idea that
you too will grow up to marry someone of the opposite sex. (you imagine yourself that
way too).
Media and Ideology:
- Media is place where ideology is reproduced
- Organic in a way, because it is part of culture, it is changing in relation to culture.
- Ideologies are being contested (not one version of ideology ie. Race, gender etc.)
Racism: Overt and Inferential:
- One is not simply racist and not racist, it is a constant work to not be racist. Racism is
very subtle; we are immersed in culture that is steeped in racist ideology.
1. Oet: epliit ais eas to udestad/ot do e do’t see it as uh i edia
aoe. These tpes of people hae these tpes of haateisti. Kid of like a
universal generalization ex. Asians are good at math, black people are good athletes.
Also h ae’t ou good at ath, ou’e Asia.
- Distinguishing racism from reverse racism (we cant reverse the dominant culture
- Thee is a sigulait ith oet ais, ut ultuall e do’t thik hite people ol
hae this this is oe of the manifestations of white privilege.
- Racial stereotypes- positive or negative
2. Inferential: naturalized representations and unquestioned assumptions that enable
racist statements and logics to be formulated.
- There is a meta
- Ties in where culturally Canada is at
- Its ais that does’t at to adit ais is thee. This akes it hade to pi do
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Document Summary
Be able to say something about your interpretation about it. Race as floating signifier- slippery thing in culture. Discourse-uses discourse in relation to ideology (not on mid term: hall and ideology: Building on marxist idea: once there are formed we can think of them as a lens for looking at things. Coincides (cid:449)ith )uzek"s idea (cid:894)(cid:271)elie(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e (cid:455)ou (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e(cid:895) He draws on marxist idea: ideologies produce certain forms of consciousness. An ideology in our social world that frames how we think: Patriarchy: the male is the dominant person in society, ex2. Little kid grown up in a society where he is introduced to heteronormative relationships, you have the idea that you too will grow up to marry someone of the opposite sex. (you imagine yourself that way too). Media is place where ideology is reproduced. Organic in a way, because it is part of culture, it is changing in relation to culture.
