SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Panopticism, Performativity, Action Hero
22 Feb 2017
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Identities arise from complex social structures; how we understand ourselves is married to the economic, political, and symbolic words we live in. Panopticism: power is visible and unverifiable, power produces docile, submitting bodies, so that power is productive, panoptic power is subtle and constant. Docile bodies: we produce bodies through our lives. Performativity, judith butler: the way social scripts about sex and gender get enacted, no distinction between performance and identity, highlights artifice of gender and sexual identities, drag vs. parody: Drag is an exaggerated performance of g&s, whereas parody is imitation as a form of ridicule. Shake it off an exaggerated, oversimplified parody that ironically fails and becomes another repeated reproduction. Constant gender performance has led to dichotomous understanding of gender. How we discipline our bodies creates gender dichotomies and produces gender differences. Hegemonic masculinity: the most privileged type of masculinity within our. Relationship as an identity: dominance over women and other men, racialized, privileges heteronormativity, macho masculinity.
