SOAN 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White Privilege, Judith Butler, Intersectionality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2400
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Soan2400 unit 1: introduction to theories of gender. Sex: biological and physiological characteristics that are used to differentiate between what we consider a man and a woman. Gender: the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that relate to understandings of masculinity and femininity in any given society; the social enactment or performance of the biological sex assigned at birth. Gender systems: the intersections of how society understands gender and constructs rules to govern those understandings. Intersectionality: the ways in which gender, race, and other categories of identity interact and intersect. Power: extends beyond authoritative positions; resources, expectations, and obligations for a complex web of socially defined relationships. Context: circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea. Argument: white privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks . Notions of neutrality convey social advantages for whites that are visible to marginalized groups.