SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces, Heterosexism, Intersectionality
Document Summary
Investigate how people"s everyday activities reflect , reproduce and sometimes challenge a wide range of power relations (p. 3) To unpack the center is to explore the taken for granted features of dominant forms of social organization. Standpoint from which those who have privilege see the world. Sustained through what are typically unmarked and unnamed cultural practices. While we might occupy the center in one respect we might not in others, as we all have many dimensions and attachments. We are always negotiating, and sometimes even reframing these, according to the distinct composition of various social locations we occupy. As a result we might simultaneously occupy the center and the margins. Agency: a capacity to make choices within the frames of reference and possibilities available to us, and to act on those choices. Example: in order to understand homophobia, must understand heterosexuality/ heterosexism. Our identities and social relations have many dimensions.
