SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hegemonic Masculinity, The Birdcage, Celery
1 Mar 2016
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Functionalism: everything serves a function, working harmonial together, stability, macro. Conflict theorist: power, struggles for power, power is something you have or dont have, 1 group over another, exploitation, aggression, capitalism(evil), pits people against each other, something to purchase, macro. Symbolic interactionist: micro, interpersonal relationships, about the meaning, attachment. Post structuralist: discourse, ideas about something, what does it mean to be a good parent? -discourse. Race example: white chicks the movie, how they portrayed themselves, behaved-class example: mcdonalds vs. the keg, how you feel. Ability example: how people read us, or dont read us. Example: legislation that controls women rights for abortion. Judging people by whats on the plate in front of them, tattoos. Military stripping sense of self and individuality i. e. : uniforms. Body work (coffey) any practice that is undertaken to modify or maintain some aspect of the body, often linked to the appearance of the body . No neutral, universal, objective truth about what is attractive.
