SOCIOL 2R03 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Karl Marx, Working Poor, System On A Chip
12 Oct 2018
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SOCIOL 2R03
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Fall 2018
2R03 LECTURE BEFORE TEST 1
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The Gordian Knot of Race Class and Gender
Agenda
• A. Introduction to Inequality
• Income inequality (assoc. w poor diet, housing, sanitation, increase levels of stress/insecurity, reduces
productivity)
• Inequality creates two publics (the haves and the have nots)
• B. Intersectionality
• Kimberle Crenshaw (1995)
• Verna Kirkness (1978): disriiatio within disriiatio
• Shrene Razack: Systems of oppression
• C. Historical Shifts in the Development of Inequality Across Society
• Hunting-Gathering, Horticultural, Agrarian, Pre-industrial, Industrial and Post-industrial
• D. Discussion of Writing Assignment 5 mins (Any Questions?)
Wh Inequality Matters in 1,000 words or less? Dec. 2007 CCPA
1. The rich can leave the boat
2. Public resources for addressing problems are diminished
3. Canadians become beggars
• Reduction of public available services, the wealthy become unnecessary in public work
• Priorities of the wealthy get funded
4. Inequalities fosters elitism and resentment
• Something better about being at the top
5. Gross inequalities are part of a culture of individualism
6. Inequality is the end of democracy (Cunningham 2007)
• Poverty is the worst form of violence
• Intersectionality:
• …theoretial and methodological tool that helps us understand the simultaneous and multiple effects
of ethnicity, social class and sexualities on geder
• Mahalingam, Balan and Haritatos, 2008: 326)
• Difficult to analyze bc there is a continual interaction w one another and diff inequalities
• Kimberle Crenshaw (1995)
• Itersetios of various social identities profoundly affect the lives of those who embody these
ategories
• 3 tennets:
1. No social group is homogenous
2. People must be located in terms of their structures that capture power relations implied by those
structures.
3. There are unique, non-additive effects of identifying with more than one group (Stewart and McDermott,
2004).
• Came up w this term for legal addressment
• Used a intersecting road metaphor
• Verna Kirkness (1987: 413)
• Discrimination within discrimination: explains the ways in which Indigenous women have been
marginalized and pushed to the peripheries
• Systems of oppression : capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy
• Subjects marked by colonialism, white supremacy
• Cat be easily torn apart
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• The need for gender and racial hierarchies to fuel the systems of oppression
• (Razack, 1998).
• Class and gender are intergroup issue
• How do women put other women down and how do we fail to recognize our positions of
power
• Inwardly focused: fail to see how others are oppressed
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill-Collins (1990, 2000)
• Matrix of domination
1. focus on critical self-reflection
2. Process and systems of oppression
3. Operationalize Resistance
• What can I do as an ind what is to be done
• You need to know yourself to be an activist and to engage in political action (what is to be done how
are we going to create a more just society)
Development of Inequality Across Society: An Historical Analysis
• Hunter Gathering Societies
• For tens of millennia, human life and work did not exhibit the material progress that we associate with
the modern world, but prehistoric people were certainly not deficient in knowledge and skills, and in
some ways their capabilities exceeded ours (Volti, 2008)
• Lowest levels of inequality
• Only period in time where it is not characterized as gross economic divisions
• Horticulturalists: disappearing for the past 7,000 years
• Agrarian economy supported larger groups of people.
• more stratified than their predecessors
• Accumulation of thigs
• From: The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State (Marx and Engels, 1884)
• The overthrow of mother right was the world-historical defeat of the female sex. The man
seized the reins in the house also, the woman was degraded, enthralled, the slave of the as
lust, a mere instrument for breeding children. This lowered position of oe…
• (page 736 in the Marx-Engels Reader 2nd Edition).
• From: The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State (Marx and Engels, 1884)
• The modern family contains in embryo not only slavery (servitus) but serfdom also, since from
the very beginning it is connected with agricultural services. It contains within itself in
miniature all the antagonisms which later develop on a wide scale with society and its state
• (page 737 in the Marx-Engels Reader 2nd Edition)
• Industrial Societies:
• Economist Simon Kuznets (1955)
• Kuznets curve: inequality within society increases until society reaches a certain point in
industrialization where it would then decline (in theory)
• Refer to exhibit 1.1 on page (2014:20, 2017: 21)
• The Coming of Post-Industrial Society by Daniel Bell 1973
1. extensive trade among nations.
2. a large surplus of goods
3. a large service sector that employs workers
4. wide variety of goods and services
5. iforatio eplosio
6. the rise of the global village because of soc media and tech there is a connection that we have to ind that are
far away from us
• Doest necessarily change how we act
• Shifts in inequality as we move through the modes of production
• Small populations of wealth is where inequality resides (India, brazil)
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Document Summary
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