SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Queer Theory, Participatory Democracy, Labiaplasty
31 Dec 2018
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Participatory democracy depends on the ability of citizens to make decisions, often on the basis of what they consume in the media, and to communicate through an active involvement with the media (lewis & jhally 1998:109-110). Sociology of gender (conflict theory: post-structuralist, critical theory, si) Media advance representations of gendered identities and influence how we perceive men. & women in general, and ourselves in particular. This also shapes our views of normal" relationships within and between sexes. Media cannot tell us what to think, but it tells us what to think about (agenda setting) Media have both progressive and regressive tendencies. How one interprets media is also subjective and based on personal experience and interpretation. Audiences have agency; media content can be challenged and changed adapted from wood, j 2011. 1990"s (post-structuralist) feminist critical theory > queer theory. Challenges the sexual identity binaries imposed by patriarchy (heteronormativity)
