SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Burqa, Ryerson University, The Orenda
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Roles or contexts in which you feel powerful. Roles or contexts in which you feel disempowered. Culture shapes relations of power by: defining what is legitimate. Example: governments have legitimized power over others: establishing a moral code. Example: ideas of what is good/bad that we become socialized towards: shaping common sense (pg. Example: how stereotypes and typical ideologies give power to others. Social location: the overlapping ways in which we are positioned in society based on. Some categorical power and powerlessness has deep historical roots (pg. 166) the social groups that we belong to: shapes how we perceive things, how we are perceived, our positions of power. Example of power: tv guide (1953 present) A cultural object that enables us to see who has power/visibility/representation. Large majority of white people represented in tv guides over nonwhite people. Do conversational norms differ for men and women: men tend to talk more in conversation, men are more likely to interrupt women.
