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Significance of Race, Class & Gender. Defining Terms Oppression Race Class Gender Intersections. Oppression.
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Significance of Race, Class & Gender • Defining Terms • Oppression • Race • Class • Gender • Intersections
Oppression • attitudes, behaviors, and pervasive and systematic social arrangements by which members of one group are exploited and subordinated while members of another group are granted privileges
Oppression (continued) • Sociological definition • Ascribed statuses • Reverse discrimination
Oppression (cont.) • Individual and Institutional
Race • biologically transmitted traits that members of a society deem socially significant • Examples include skin color and facial features
Class • Composite social ranking based on education, income, wealth and occupation • Typical categories include lower, working, middle and upper
Gender • Sex - the biological identity of a person as either female or male • Gender-the socially learned behaviors and expectations associated with the two sexes • Feminine and masculine
Intersections • Salience • Matrix of Domination • race, class and gender simultaneously structure our experiences • Implications
Theories on Gender (cont.) 3) Matrix of Domination (Hill Collins) • race, class and gender simultaneously structure our experiences • implications