SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Privilege, Male Privilege, Heteronormativity
12 Feb 2018
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Mythical norm intersectionality = multiple, overlapping and interlocking forms of oppression. Normalization = the process through which something becomes seen as normal or natural. Ability to make normal = kind of power. Normalizing power works by: comparing, differentiating, hierarchicalizing, homogenizing, and excluding. Key circumstances produced by racism = lives of privilege for some, oppression for others. Privilege is often invisible to those who have it! Includes privilege in social, legal, and political structures, and everyday life. Intersectionality = means race, gender sexuality class (and so on!) ,must be thought together - these privileges and oppressions are related not separate. Sysytem of social relations oin which heterosexualtiy is institutianlly and ideologically/discursively privileged at the wxpense of queer sexualitties. Institutions = structures and mechanisms of human order which govern the behaviour of groups of people. Ideology = a set of ideas that makes sense of social and political world. Discourse = organized system of making sense of the world.
