04:192:200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dualism, Social Exclusion, Essentialism
30 Oct 2014
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Feminism: focusing on women"s social position and desiring to end oppression based on gender. Partial: a recognition that no one has a complete view of the social hierarchy. Outsider within: a person in a normally marginalized social position who has gained access to a more privileged location. Situated knowledges: what anyone knows is grounded in context and circumstance. Sexual division of labor: allocation of work on the basis of sex. Essentialism: the belief that all women are essentially the same, all men are essentially the same, and the two differ from each other. Dualisms: organizing things around pairs of opposites. People occupy specific places in the social hierarchy. Individuals view social situations from specific vantage points. Vantage points that oppose those in power become standpoints. Dominant: gays and lesbians, women, latinos, asians, muslims, poor. Standpoint: an achieved position based on a social location that lends an interpretative aspect to a person"s life.
