SOC 525 Lecture 2: Theoretical Foundations, Intersectionality, & Hegemony
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Readings : toward a new vision : race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and connection, by. He did serve a small prison sentence: think about how race, class and gender are working through the take up of micheal. How can we reconceptualize race, class and gender as categories of analysis: hill-collins argues that there are limitations to an additive analysis: !1: tells us nothing about how the system of oppression works, how they sustain one another and how they come into existence through one another, ignores the concept of intersectionality. Gender oppression is structured along three main dimensions: institutional: systematic relationships of domination and subordination are structured through social institutions. Characteristics of an interlocking system of oppression: resists a hierarchy of oppression, oppressions are interconnected/interlock, oppressions are held together by power (systems of domination and subordination, to eradicate the oppression, we must challenge the systems that maintain them.
