AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mutation, Natural Selection, Hypodescent
25 Mar 2016
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An approach that studies how biological, social or cultural categories (or identities) intersect to produce oppressive discriminatory impacts. Race and class intersect to produce double oppression. Michigan led in water- poisoned by policy gov"t wanted to cut costs, redirected it to come from a polluted river. Policies of states and institutions that lead to poverty, hunger & social inequalities. High level of pollutants in the artic (from getting rid of electronics, sent up. Ebola virus killed over 5000ppl there to cause pollution) One in which members of the same sex or equivalent age status do not have equal access to the basic resources that sustain life (morton fried 1967:186) No access to money, education, medi-care, food, clean water. Social hierarchy with upper class, middleclass, lower class. Ascribed = position (standing) based not on individual talents or qualifications, but on family or birth (caste, race, sex) Naturalizing discourses an idea common to all forms of stratification.
