SOC 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bell Hooks, Class Consciousness, False Consciousness

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 507
• Professor: Alireza Asgharzadeh

Document Summary

Interlocking and intersecting nature of relevant systems of domination. The people in power looking for points of vulnerability to take exploit people (ex. Interrelationships of class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, etc. Intersecting of various identity but acknowledging the distinctiveness. Paradigms: bell hooks, kimberl crenshaw and others. Race, class, and gender as a matrix of domination: patterns of interdependency and interrelation, patterns of structured power relations. Intersecting or matrix model: focuses on the patterns of connection. Inclusive thinking and seeing people beyond a single identity. Challenges to intersectionality: many categories and identities, need to narrow down amount of categories to do, class-based criticism: analyze each of them enough. Looking at class as not merely an identity. Seeing class analysis as a mode of structural explanation. Looking at the distinction between exploitation and oppression. Marxian sociology/class-based criticism: sees intersectionality as: unable to address the root causes of social inequality in the capitalist socioeconomic system (exploitation, maximum profit of dominant group)