SOC 150B2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Invisibility, Meritocracy, Audre Lorde

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Sociology Main
• Course: SOC 150B2
• Professor: Louise Marie Roth

Document Summary

All women and men do not share interests. More research on women and men of color/poor or working class people. More work by women of color since 19th century. Women are diverse - not everyone fits the same mold. Rationality should not be the basis for rights. Focus on needs and issues faced by people of color and those in developing countries. Arose out of women"s movement and black civil rights movement. Focus on needs and issues faced by people of color and those developing countries. Racial/gender/class oppression aren"t easy to distinguish in a persons life. Often impossible to separate out discrete effects of different types of oppression. Systematic socially supported mistreatment of one group of people by another. Customarily based on an assumption (based off assumptions target is on some way inferior) Embedded within the institutions: religion, labor force, education, jobs. Members of the dominant group tend not to see it i. e: color-blind; don"t see color, don"t see racism.