SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Class
27 Sep 2016
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Acceptable (not prohibited by law): simple teasing, offhand comments, isolated incidents. Illegal harassment: frequent, severe harassment, hostile or offensive environment. Legitimate or illegitimate sexuality based on context: positions of power distinguish labels, race or ethnicity of victim and perpetrator different, differing sexual orientation. Gay man making lewd comments at the urinals: threat or action of violence against victim, study by patti guiffre and christine williams: boundary lines: Particular culture of restaurants differing from most other work areas. Can be measured objectively or subjectively: objective method evaluates all attributes of people analytically, focus on employment, economic resources and level of education completed. Some ambiguity from deciding exactly how to divide sections, and where people on the very edge fall, unavoidable: subjective method- asking people to define themselves. Focused more on where people feel that they fit in. Jackman & jackman analysis, people sort themselves fairly well into classes. Class awareness in the united states tests whether people can distinguish themselves.
