SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sexual Assault, Intersectionality, Quadroon

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIO-120
• Professor: Brown

Document Summary

Increase in education: in 1950, 24% of all bachelor"s degrees were issued to women, in 2010 this had risen to about 57% The trend of women making up an increasing proportion of the poor. In 1960, only 25% of all poor households were headed by women. In 2013, 51% of all poor households were headed by women: make less money, more in general (only 11% of single-headed households are headed by men) Violence against women: physical assault (approx. Most vulnerable victims of rape/attempted rape: young (<35, poor, rural. Title vi, title vii, title ix and affirmative action (blackboard) Race is socially defined (or constructed) difference based on skin color and other physical characteristics. What does it mean to say race is socially constructed or defined? categories. Observable human difference exists along a continuum rather than within distinct. Race is shaped by broad societal forces (social relations and historical context)