SOC301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Homicide, Symbolic Link, Rais
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Intersectionality has to be part of all analyses of gender. This week is just the beginning for intersectionality: we need to keep talking about it throughout the course. Race is not a biological category, it is socially constructed. Racialization is a social process produced through hierarchical relations of power. As with other forms of social inequality, race produces one group as dominant, other groups as devalued, disadvantaged, and discriminated against. The do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)t group is usuall(cid:455) (cid:448)ie(cid:449)ed as the (cid:862)default(cid:863), (cid:449)ith other groups as (cid:862)other(cid:863) or see(cid:374) as differe(cid:374)t. Pri(cid:448)ilege is ofte(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le to those (cid:449)ho ha(cid:448)e it, (cid:271)ut (cid:373)ore o(cid:271)(cid:448)ious to those (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e it. Pegg(cid:455) m(cid:272)i(cid:374)tosh(cid:859)s list of so(cid:373)e of the pri(cid:448)ileges she e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es due to her (cid:449)hite(cid:374)ess has i(cid:374)spired lots of other lists of different kinds of privilege, such as cis privilege (identifying as the gender assigned to you at birth)
