WGST 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Lakoff, Role Theory, Sugar Land, Texas
17 Sep 2016
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Girls magazine covers vs. boys" magazine covers. Clements hs in sugar land, tx -- the principal talking about dress code and blaming girls with tight clothing for the poor academic performance of young men. On being a black female math whiz during the space race. Black and female, dozens had worked at the space agency as mathematicians, often under jim crow laws, segregated from their white counterparts. Two women -- christine darden (73) and katherine johnson (98) Dominants vs. subordinates -- those in power determine philosophy, morality, values in society. Dominants often do not realize the privileges associated with being in power. Since she was a powerful person at the company, she was able to make that happen right away. Ex: many skeletons in doctors" offices are male and usually never female. Those that differ from the norm are deviations. Self-hatred -- internalization of a dominant group"s belief. Passing -- pressure to assimilate into dominant culture results in some.
