[SOCB47H3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (28 pages long!)
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Investigate how people"s everyday activities reflect , reproduce and sometimes challenge a wide range of power relations (p. 3) To unpack the center is to explore the taken for granted features of dominant forms of social organization. Standpoint from which those who have privilege see the world. Sustained through what are typically unmarked and unnamed cultural practices. As a result we might simultaneously occupy the center and the margins. Agency: a capacity to make choices within the frames of reference and possibilities available to us, and to act on those choices. Example: in order to understand homophobia, must understand heterosexuality/ heterosexism. Our identities and social relations have many dimensions. Intersectionality is the belief that oppressions are interlinked and cannot be solved alone. Mutually constitutive: example: cannot understand gender without race. Intersectionality means there is a lot of opportunities for centers ( and margins) We all occupy some centers and some margins.
