ANTH 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Structural Violence, Social Group, Intersectionality
26 Oct 2018
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Submergence of racial and cultural differences in women. Various social and cultural categories interact on multiple and simultaneous levels. Categories of oppression do not operate independently, instead intersect and reflect multiple forms of discrimination. Political-economic organization of society harms vulnerable" people: prevents them from meeting their basic needs. Studying men in relation to women and other men. Male gender identity just as culturally defined as female. Masculinity is what men think or do. Cross-culturally men are often made while women are born . Cluster of people beyond domestic unit who are usually related on a basis other than kinship. Although kinship relations may exist between people. Cultural constructions designed to create categories around one or another imagined. Friendships: close social ties between at least two people in which ties are informal, voluntary and involve personal, face to face interaction, non-kin and kin, form of social support, who qualifies as friend is culturally structured.
