ATH 185 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Intersectionality, Racial Democracy, Miscegenation
16 Oct 2018
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Gay right movement: culture is symbolic or embodied in symbols. A symbol is anything that stands for or represents something: status or positions: teacher, husband, wife, professor, etc. with each status comes different behaviors and often different kinds and degrees of social knowledge. The law of independent assortment, each of these traits can be transmitted and inherited independently: intersectionality (race and gender): critique the tendency to treat race and gender as mutually exclusive categories of experience and analysis. Religion, gender are all made up of components of each and elements from all cultures: ascribed status: one that the individual is born with or that naturally develops over time. For example, one is not born elderly, but if one lives long enough one will become elderly. Gender, race, age: achieved status: one that an individual must exert some effort to acquire during his lifetime. Education, professionalism, marital status: race in brazil, a good example of loose and analog race system.
