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15 Cards in this Set
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Hegemony
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Domination through ideological control and consent
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Patriarchy
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A pervasive and complex social and cultural system of male domination
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Ruling
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The exercise of power shaping people's actions
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Discourse
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A system of meaning that governs how we think act and speak about a particular thing or issue
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Discipline
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The means by which we become motivated to produce particular realities
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Normalisation
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A social process by which some practice and ways of living are marked normal and others are marked abnormal
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Desire
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Our sexual attraction and wants
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Identity
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Our sense of self that is socially produced is fluid and is multiple
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Imperialism
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The conquest of land , resources and people labour; the ideas, practices, and attitude of colonisers
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Colonialism
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The effects of imperialism, including concrete and ideological effects within colonised territories
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Orientalism
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Said's concept of a discourse of power that creates a false distinction between a superior West and an inferior East
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Dis embedding mechanism
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A mechanism that aids in shifting social relations from local to global context
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Time-space distanciation
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The separation of time and space which allows social relations to shift from a local to a global context
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Symbolic token
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A medium of exchange ( such as money)
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Expert system
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System of knowledge on which we rely but with which we may never be directly in contact
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