[ANT 176] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 47 pages long Study Guide!
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Privilege: special advantages granted to an individual based on his or her membership in a social group: an invisible package of unearned assets that i can count on cashing in each day. , can be material or emotional. Freedom from discrimination or undue pressures, feeling of belonging: unearned and unacknowledged. Markedness: (from linguistics) the way words are modified to give a special meaning: unmarked words are normal , marked words are unusual, social categories are also marked/unmarked. Male is usually the unmarked category while femaleness is the marked category. Whiteness is unmarked vs. non-white are marked: being an unmarked social category is a form of privilege, examples . Hey guys being universal among gender vs calling a group of males and females by saying hey girls . Asking someone how short are you? vs how tall are you? . Professional wrestling: wrestling matches have predetermined outcomes. Allows for the creation of a wrestling drama .
