SOC 525 Chapter Notes - Chapter Articles: George Lipsitz, Sitcom, Voyeurism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Purnima George

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Media and images of inequality readings, week two. Toward a new vision: race, class and gender as categories of analysis and connection by. It"s easy to see a(cid:374)d feel the effe(cid:272)ts of people"s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) ou(cid:396) su(cid:271)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)atio(cid:374), however it"s diffi(cid:272)ult to see ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e affe(cid:272)t othe(cid:396) people a(cid:374)d thei(cid:396) su(cid:271)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)atio(cid:374) Need for fully human relationships that transcend differences, stop assuming that people will act a certain way because they are a certain race/culture/gender. Shift discourse away from additive analyses of oppression, which are typically based on dichotomous thinking (opposite thinking, ex. Black/white) with dichotomies that must be ranked (usually dominant on one side and subordinate on the other: analyses of oppression typically use these two methods in order to rank relationships in order to know where one stands. Institutional dimensions of oppression are structured through schools, businesses, hospitals, workplaces; idea of (cid:862)e(cid:395)ual oppo(cid:396)tu(cid:374)ity(cid:863) te(cid:374)ds to (cid:373)ask this.