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Social Location
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group memberships and individual has based on his or her location in history and society. Ex: Job, Ethnicity, Race, Class, Gender.
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Readings Hill Collins says your social location forms your matrix of oppression.
Landry says each individual thing comes to one. |
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intersectionality
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the idea that forms of oppression do not act independently but intersect for form a system of oppression or what Hill Collins calls a matrix of domination.
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Ferguson: African American Male
Ethnic women-servers |
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Hidden Curriculum
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refers to the way that teachers set out a path for students by encouraging some or discouraging others. This is a form of institutional oppression.
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Ferguson: black boy is said to have a jail sentence on his head. Punishment room. same crime.
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Intergenerational wealth
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not income but family inheritance
assets give you advantages wealth stays concentrated in the hands of the few |
Shapiro: some families can live off of inheritance. black and white in same situation makes all the difference
People like Us: Who Rules America |
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Private Social Clubs and Social Class
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expensive groups that you need money and even a recommendation to get in. where all the people in power come from. some people go just to keep up with their reputation.
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Who Rules America: talk about the clubs, debutantes, junior league
People Like Us:show the WASP parties, Jack and Jill Power Elite: people who are in this were members of the clubs |
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Class
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socio-economic status
defined by income or wealth? assumptions about race, family, education, background, place |
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Social Construction
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the way we are taught to see the world, sets of categories and the meanings we attach to them.
Race, gender not inherent in nature. we have created them. |
Landry argues that race is not biological
House we live in talks about the way whiteness changed Bonilla-honorary whites |
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Theories
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Propositions about the way the social world works and predictions of future events.
Funcitonalist, Symbolic Interaction, Conflict |
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Protestant Ethic
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Max Weber
Individual relationship with god, self-denial, predestination individualism, investment, worldly success |
American Dream, Weber
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Conflict Theory
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the theory that social order arises from conflict and struggle which gives way to inequality.
MARX |
Communist Manifesto: 2 class system arose from market competition. workers and owners-disparity.
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Power Elite
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Mills
Triangle of Power Military, Political, Economic now they have intersected |
Mills: decision makers
Who Rules America: they come from the social clubs oil industry: Haliburton: Dick Cheney- Afghanistan |
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Meritocracy
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the position you hold in society in based on your merit. relate it to the economy. your status is based on how hard you work.
america wants to be a meritocracy but we aren't. inheritance is key |
Nickel and Dimed
American Dream Power Elite, Who Rules America Hidden cost |
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social stratification
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large numbers of people are divided into different layers or strata. ex race, class, gender
most societies like this but its not unequal unless there are wide disparities of wealth. |
forms a pyramid. those with most numbers have least wealth at bottom and those with least numbers have most wealth at top
American Dream, Nickel Dimed, Bonilla Silva |
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social mobility
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movement of individuals or groups between the social strata.
in america we'd like to thing we have social mobility but its super hard. not everyone can move as easily. some hit a glass ceiling |
American Dream
Nickel and DImed |
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dimensions of oppression
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hill collins says
institutional: school, workplace -Ferguson Symbolic: images, stereotypes -Ferguson, profiling -Personal: It's not my problem social location |
hill collins
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color blind vs color conscious racism
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conscious: Jim crow laws
blind is more symbolic. hoodie, coded language, realtors, adoption |
Bonilla Silva
Kim Trayvon Rue house we live in |
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Hill Collins: Race, Class, Gender
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Race, Class, and Gender all work together to form a matrix of domination and a system of oppression.
there are different levels of oppression: institutional-school, work Bad boys symbolic profiling-white/black personal-social location, its not my problem |
dimensions of oppression
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Landry: Intersectional Analysis
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forms of oppression do not operate independently but intersect to create a system of oppression.
must look at the social location created by race class and gender. social construct not biological whiteness is a fluctuating category brazil |
intersectionality
social construct |
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Ferguson: Bad Boys
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hidden curriculum
teachers mark out kids set for a certain path: labeled as trouble makers schools reproduce race and social class distinctions (agent of social reproduction) inequalities that maintain the stratification punishment rooms-self-fulfilling |
hidden curriculum
color-blind stratification class |
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Max Weber: Protestant Ethic
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protestant worldviews of calvinism and puritanism influenced the development of the capitalist economy.
individual relationship with god-individualism self-denial-investment predestination-worldly success |
Protestant Ethic
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Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed
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she tries to make it on minimum wage jobs but finds it impossible.
you need to hold two jobs in order to financially support yourself but holding two jobs is sometimes impossible ethnic way servers and maids are split. |
Meritocracy
Social Location Stratification Social Mobility |
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McNamee & Smith: The American Dream
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America thought to be a land of opportunity but Meritocracy is not a reality
Protestant Ideals fuel capitalism so much of the economy comes from inheritance |
Meritocracy
Intergenerational Wealth Social Mobility |
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Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto
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class struggle b/t proletariat (workers) and bourgeoisie (owners)
this struggle will lead to revolution capitalism perpetuates the inequality |
Conflict Theory
did not foresee: middle class, unions, some owners having less power than some workers |
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Domhoff: Who Rules America
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there are certain indicators of wealth and a distinct lifestyle.
Education: Private schools, boarding schools, tutors Elite Social Clubs: need money to be a part of, those people run the show, just for presentation Junior League, Debutantes, Volunteer Work |
Power Elite
Social Clubs |
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C. Wright Mills: The Power Elite
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most important decisions made by the power elite. the top leaders in the top 3 areas. executives, senior officers, and president plus other officials.
all know each other/act in unison (facilitated by social clubs) military, economy, political |
Power Elite
Social Clubs it has converged today |
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Shapiro: The Hidden Cost
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a black and white family in the same money situation (single mother with kid) will have different results. white person has the family money and assets (no debt, no college loans, inheritance) to help keep her afloat while the black woman has little room to move upwards.
wealth discrepancy even though they have similar achievements and credentials. |
Intergenerational Wealth
Social Mobility Stratification |
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Anderson: The Cosmopolitan Canopy
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Not all racial interactions are negative
strangers from diverse backgrounds come together in cosmopolitan canopies. its not like a city where its diverse but everyone is where but rather a place where people coexist and can have easy interaction with eachother. Philadelphia Reading Terminal Market People watching, friendly convo, personal info |
Ethnography
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Kim: Adoption
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racism is influencing adoption
people want to avoid the stigma of being barren so they want a child who looks like them. less white babies because of birth control, abortion, acceptance. they say they want a healthy baby or an american baby. asian babies are pretty |
color blind
connects to the emerging triracial order |
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Bonilla-Silva: New Racism
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a color blind racism is emerging so its not blatant in policy but actions reflect tendencies. it has become more symbolic with coded language and white buyers looking for white nieghborhoods.
emerging tri racial order with honorary whites. the category of white is in flux (European immigrants) preserve the order--zimmerman |
Social Construction
Color blind, Color Conscious social location Zimmerman Rue |
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People Like Us
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WASP Club events
Co-op in Vermont White bread became a class issue with the rich having all the power but giving the poor no say Jack and Jill Clubs upper class blacks getting made fun of |
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The House We Live In
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race is not biological
who is white has changed and used to be mandated by law housing is a racial issue white neighborhoods white flight--low tax base |
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