SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Stratification, Essentialism, Ascribed Status
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Intersectionality of ideological justification for oppression (class, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation) The acknowledgment that within groups of people with a common identity, Domination takes away the energy to resist. Black feminist thought challenges the eurocentric masculine thought that dominates social institutions. Most people are members of multiple dominant groups and multiple subordinate groups. Key points: (1) gender as a social construction, (2) gender as a dimension of social stratification. Old: to see the connections between the cultural/identity dimensions of gender and the broader material patterns of gender stratification. Masculine and feminine traits should be natural and universal. Masculine and feminine traits would be static and unchangeable. Biology sets broad limits and potential with a complex interaction between biology and cultural conditions. Socially created, carries social meanings and had stratifying implications. Typically has been dichotomized into masculinity and femininity. Socialization, ideologies, images, institutions, and the development of gendered identities all channel us into a dichotomous gender system.
