SOCIOL 2R03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Chitterlings, Investment, Indigenous Peoples Of The Eastern Woodlands
17 Sep 2016
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Social inequality readings the gordian knot of race, class & gender pgs 3-27, ch. Abbreviations: diff - different, b/w - between, inst - institution, ind - individual, org"ztn - organization, grps - groups, fams - families/family, avrg - average, grter - greater, probs - problems. The gordian knot of race, class & gender. When alex the great sent his armies to asia minor he was shown the gordian knot. Gordian knot tangle of cords tied by gordius (king of phrygia) And only future of asian will be capable of untying it. The story concludes with alex slicing it w. a sword. All connected to three core dimensions: gender, race and class. None of these three are more imp than the other. All these dimensions in inequality can be hard to see, intertwined w. other ones, hard to measure but all affection the same thing (which is a body of people) Age provides both disadvantage and advantage, privileges and probs.
