SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Masculinity
16
SOCIOL 1Z03 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
16 documents
Document Summary
Page 21 of 22: attempt to identify the way in which institutionalized and internalized norms limit women"s behaviours and opportunities. Post-structuralist theory: draws on the work of michel foucault, masculinity, femininity, and even sex itself are socially and discursively constructed. Gender cannot be thought of as having some essential basis: no authentic femininity and masculinity rooted in male and female bodies . What is a minority any definable category of people who are socially disadvantaged. Two components of membership in a minority group: the groups lacks social power, not the size of the group, rather its lack of power 2. Majority uses dominance to control the social system: definable: recognizably different, race is most recognizable difference. Myth of race historically, a race was a group of people who were physically and genetically distinguished from other groups. Social construction historical legacy of colonialism and ethnocentrism race is real as a social category.
