WMNST 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Privilege, Interpersonal Communication
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Social oppression: being denied social power, status, and resources, due to non- dominant group membership. Power: the ability to exercise control; having access to resources as legitimized by society"s institutions. Economic and earning power, government (creates laws, courts, holds of ce), law enforcement, education institutions (power to decide what is knowledge and. Legitimate ), media representation and spreading of cultural ideologies, corporate power, conversational power (social relations discourse/language) Systematic power: ability to enact segregation, exclusion acts, interment, forced relocation, denial of rights. Hegemonic power: power to spread cultural ideologies, and images and representations that in uence consciousness and policy. Interpersonal power: day-to-day practices of how people treat each other. White, male, christian, heterosexual, english-speaking, citizens, 35-60, able-bodied (6% of population) wields most of the power in this country. Birdcage: systematically related barriers lead to hindrance and con ning because of their relations to one another solely; people"s lives shaped and reduced, their motion and mobility restricted.
