SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intersectionality, Social Class, Free Trade Area Of The Americas
3 Oct 2016
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Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Precarious Employment
Intersectionality Theory
The study of the ways in which institutionalized forms of discrimination operate in
tandem in the lives of people
-comes from early feminist thinkers realizing the category of women there is factors
like race, class, sexual orientation but the majorly looked at race, class and gender
-has an impact on peoples employment chances, treatment in the workplace etc.
The main identity categories are gender, race, class, and ethnicity (but there are
others as well)
In terms of work, a person’s life chances and work outcomes might be seriously
impacted (contra achievement ideology)
Race
- a specious classification of human beings created by Europeans (whites) which
assigns human worth and social status using Whit as the model of humanity and the
height of human achievement for the purpose of establishing and maintaining
privilege and power
Ronald Chisom and Michael Washington
Undoing Racism: A Philosophy of International Social Change
-perceived ideas of one’s usually physical characteristics
-still divides society and workers
Ethnicity
-similar but more emphasis on culture factors
An ethnic group or ethnicity is a socially defined category of people who identify
with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience.
-have a sort of biological sense
-everyone has some sort of ethnic variation
-people have changed last names because may be associated with certain ethnic
identities, and you could be discriminated based on it without even knowing
(resume)
Includes cultural factors such as language and religion
Class
Economic class (Marx) based on relationship to the means of production (ie owners
and workers)
-social way that can include economic criteria, the status or the prestige of your job
in a more Weberian kind of sense
-cues that you may not be aware of that give away class
Social class (Weber and others) perceived position in social hierarchy based on
financial status, economic status, and/or occupational status
Gender
The culturally defined roles, traits, and status assigned to perceived biological sex
-a lot of women speak in a declarative way and can make you perceived as less
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Document Summary
The study of the ways in which institutionalized forms of discrimination operate in tandem in the lives of people. Comes from early feminist thinkers realizing the category of women there is factors like race, class, sexual orientation but the majorly looked at race, class and gender. Has an impact on peoples employment chances, treatment in the workplace etc. The main identity categories are gender, race, class, and ethnicity (but there are others as well) In terms of work, a person"s life chances and work outcomes might be seriously impacted (contra achievement ideology) Undoing racism: a philosophy of international social change. An ethnic group or ethnicity is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience. People have changed last names because may be associated with certain ethnic identities, and you could be discriminated based on it without even knowing (resume) Includes cultural factors such as language and religion.
