Sociology 2172A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Weight Watchers, Brown Sugar, Ableism
7 Nov 2017
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A sociologist coined the term the invisible knapsack". Ideally white male heterosexual middle class between ages of 25-55 is not the other. If you are all those things you have a lot of privilege that you don"t even realize you have. You haven"t had to deal with discrimination, lack of resources etc. But not all women face same discrimination. Groups of people that don"t have same access to resources as everyone else. When asked most people say they would not like to see people portrayed as stereotypes in ads. Overweight individuals - the last group of people that are politically accepted as the. Don"t want to disturb values and norms. Majority doesn"t have to do with how many people there are in a group, just how. Tuesday, november 7, 2017 much power they hold. E. g. 10% of population are gay but they were not shown for a long time on tv.
