March 8 th

1. March 8th • Attendance • Return Paper #1 • Hand in grading rubric and make sure exam #1 is submitted to turnitim.com • Lectures Four: Doing Difference • Homework: • “Bluest Eye” Winter

2. Lecture Four Doing Difference: Race, Gender and Class

3. Social Construction Of Race Actions/Behavior Based on those Ideas Unequal Social Structure Based on Race • People create social structure through their actions and the meaning they give to their actions

4. Interpersonal Racism • Prejudice: negative beliefs, attitudes, and feelings toward members of another social group • Stereotyping: exaggerated and inaccurate generalizations about members of a group • Discrimination: unfavorable treatment of individuals because of their group membership

5. Differences in Interpersonal Racism • Aware/blatant racism • Outright, believed superiority/hatred • Aware/covert racism • Hidden, believed superiority/hatred • Unaware/unintentional • Internalized/unrecognized superiority • Unaware/self-righteous • Focus on diversity w/out recognizing privilege

6. Internalized Racism • Internalized Racism: Conscious and unconscious incorporation and acceptance by racial/ethnic minorities of the negative stereotypes and images from the dominant culture, media, others, and ones community • Internalized racism is self-hatred; it affects ones self identity and sense of self

7. Social categories of difference are: • Learned through the process of life-long socialization and social interaction • Indirectly through representations of social life, such as the mass media • Directly through interaction with other people such as in our family, work environments, and with friends

8. “Doing” Difference: Race Differences are accomplished through our actions and behavior, they are NOT the cause of those actions and behaviors Difference Behavior/Actions NOT ↓ …But ↓ Behavior Difference

9. The Looking Glass SelfCharles Cooley • Our sense of self develops from interaction with others • Three Aspects of the ‘Looking Glass Self’ • We imagine how we appear to others • Imagine how we are judged by others • React to how we think others judge us

10. “Doing” Difference • Difference “is a situated accomplishment of societal members, the local management of conduct in relation to normative conceptions of appropriate attitudes and activities for particular [socially constructed] categories.” • Gender, race, and class are more than roles or individual attributes

11. Situated Accomplishment • Situated • Social setting • Social institutions • Accomplishment • holding our attitudes and actions accountable to certain notions of gender, race, class

12. Local Management of Conduct • We manage our actions within a social context and in relation to the specific context • Doing race is interactional and institutional in character • Actions and attitudes are only given meaning in a social setting

13. Normative Conceptions • Norms – right and wrong • Direct & indirect learning • Appropriate attitudes and activities • Accountability • Hold our actions and ideas accountable to normative conceptions • Produces action and gives recognition to that action

14. “Doing” Race in the Bluest Eye Pick an example from the Bluest Eye and explain the following: • How is the character(s) “doing race” ? • What is the social setting and who is in it? • What normative conceptions are their actions responding to? • How do the normative conceptions and social setting produce certain actions?

15. October 11th Attendance Pop Quiz Lectures Four: Doing Difference Homework: “Bluest Eye” Summer

16. “Doing” Difference Difference “is a situated accomplishment of societal members, the local management of conduct in relation to normative conceptions of appropriate attitudes and activities for particular [socially constructed] categories.”

17. Four Implications • Difference is accomplished through actions (“doings”) • Ongoing accomplishment of race, gender, class • Does not require categorical diversity • Same activity, different meanings

18. How do you “do” difference • Think of a time when you “did” difference – race, class, gender, or sexuality • What was the social setting and who is in it? • What normative conceptions were your actions responding to? • How did the normative conceptions and social setting produce certain actions?

19. Interpersonal Racism • Prejudice: negative beliefs, attitudes, and feelings toward members of another social group • Stereotyping: exaggerated and inaccurate generalizations about members of a group • Discrimination: unfavorable treatment of individuals because of their group membership

20. Differences in Interpersonal Racism • Aware/blatant racism • Outright, believed superiority/hatred • Aware/covert racism • Hidden, believed superiority/hatred • Unaware/unintentional • Internalized/unrecognized superiority • Unaware/self-righteous • Focus on diversity w/out recognizing privilege