SOCB47H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intersex, Antonio Gramsci, Nationstates
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Brock et al: position of social advantage, in the standpoint from which those who have privilege see the world. It is sustained through what are typically unmarked and unnamed cultural practices. However, is there only one center: our identities and social relations have many dimensions, intersectionality. We all occupy some centers and some margins (cid:2) (cid:2) Organized into three types of camps: modernist/structuralist, postmodernist/poststructuralist, a mixture of two. Modernism/structuralism: power as an process of social control/domination. Benefits those in power (maintains the center) Weber power the probability that one actor in a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his will despite resistance . Marx proletariat controlled by those who own the means of production control over economic relations (not a totalizing power proletariat would participate in revolution) Indirect gramsci- hegemony process whereby people come to identify the interests of the ruling class as synonymous with their own.
