SOC380H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Femininity, Intersectionality, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
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Despite great design, it was not getting at complexity of inequality that they say they are accomplishing. Even when there is scholars talking about looking at race, class, gender, together an impulse emerged that race matters, not class or gender: or inclination to say one matters more. Race became something to explain particularly about black or immigrants. White as unmarked category, is the norm. Room for more analysis not being used, Be specific about the space that the place is attracted to. Amy hanser and gender and class in china. Different sales women"s bodies become markers for different class. Bourdieu: distinction and habitus: society becomes deposited in persons in lasting dispositions, or trained capacities and structured propensities to think, feel and act in determinant ways, which then guide them. Social rules become deposited in us as bodies. People read these signs and make unconscious judgement about what that person is, and where they belong in the social ladder.
