GNDS 120 Chapter Notes -Christine Delphy, Cultural Imperialism, Social Group

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDS 120
• Professor: Melissa Houghtaling

Document Summary

Justice: distribution and institutional conditions necessary for the development and exercise of individual capacities and collective communication and cooperation. Injustice: 2 forms: oppression not used by americans but used by socialist movement; central category in political discourse; suffer some inhibition of ability to develop and exercise their needs, thoughts, and feelings. 5 faces: exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence: domination. Traditionally, oppression meant tyranny by a ruling group. 1982a, p. 11: cannot eliminate oppression by getting rid of rulers reproduced in economic, political, and cultural institutions. Social group: a collective of persons differentiated from at least one other group by cultural forms, practices, or way of life; an expression of social relations; defined by a sense of identity. Need to contrast social groups with aggregates to see what actually social group is: aggregate: classification of person according to attributes. Eliminating oppression requires eliminating groups: group differentiation is not oppressive; not all groups are oppressed.