SOCI 4055 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Heteronormativity, Hypermasculinity, Elijah Anderson
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Urban ethnography the white space in conducting research on the ground. Urban sociology was founded by the chicago school, which placed a strong emphasis in. Examining how people make sense of their situated realities and how conditions and. Urban sociology is plagued with issues, including a hypermasculine, heteronormative gaze; a. Anderson explains that, white spaces vary in kind, but their most visible and distinctive feature is their overwhelming presence of white people and their absence of black people. In the interest of consonance, they try to put the black person back in his place" at times telling him in no uncertain terms to go back where you came from. " . Racism is created and perpetuated by everyone in society, including sociologists. The white space is also a social-psychological state of being in that our attitudes, perceptions, and cultural frames operate to conduct work that perpetuates whiteness, white privilege, and white spaces.
