KINE 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Bowflex, Discourse Analysis

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Additive analysis- dichotomous (either/or) differences must be ranked. One group having salience (importance) over another does not decrease importance of assuming that race, gender, and class as categories of analysis structure all relationships. Domination- subordinate relationship in schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies. Plantation- system of institutional oppression- built into system e. g. , schools, government, prison, family. Slavery as being a patriarchal institution: symbolic. Stereotypes and controlling images of different classes, race, and groups. Some qualities acceptable to whites, but not blacks. Homogeneity of one class, race, and gender becomes barriers for connection. While there is a piece of oppression in each of us, we have a choice of accepting that piece or challenging it as part of the true focus of revolutionary change. We must transcend these barriers by moving towards race, class, and gender as categories of connection, by building relationships, and coalitions in order to bring in social change, but the issues involved in doing this are: