SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Inequality, Ecofeminism, Media Create
16 Oct 2011
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Structures are created by the interactions between people and that this can be changed. Culture is actively created and recreated through social interaction. How people interpret and construct their responses to class inequality. Feminists how the patriarchal perspective influences what society deems to be important. View gender as a socially constructed concept that has detrimental consequences for women. View gender as a performance, not by a stable self, but by identities that are continually in flux. Examine the sexism embedded in both school texts and treatment of students. Focus on schools as sites of the power/knowl edge nexus; Cultural theorists perceive education"s ability to reproduce particular class cultures. Conflict theory power lies at the core of all social relationships, and is unequally divided; karl marx. Cultural traditions develop and persist because they are adaptive and maintain stability. Conflict theory view culture as a means of perpetuating social inequality (dominant culture assimilating less powerful culture)
