SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antonio Gramsci, Heterosexism, Meritocracy
13 Oct 2016
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Media and images of inequality lecture, week two, september 14th. Highly controversial case involving vick being convicted for 21 months for running a dog fight ring; did serve this prison sentence. Possible to take the easy route of blaming it on his race, but there is also the locker room mentality of treating others as less than them and not caring about their outcomes; also masculine ideals. O(cid:373)e dis(cid:272)ou(cid:396)ses sa(cid:455) that it"s dis(cid:396)espe(cid:272)tful, a(cid:374)d othe(cid:396)s sa(cid:455) it (cid:373)akes se(cid:374)se. Nfl becomes a modern day gladiator sport, being animalistic for our pleasure. Patricia hill collins reading: critique on the essentialist approach and the additive analysis in favour of an intersecting or interlocking analysis. Interlocking approaches create possibilities for new paradigms; significance of seeing race/class/gender as interlocking systems is that this approach fosters a paradigmatic shift of thinking inclusively about other oppressions.
