Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Walmart, Sex Criminals, Male Privilege

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Scott Schaffer

Document Summary

Week 10: the master sociological categories: class, race, and. Gregory mantsios, (cid:498)making class invisible(cid:499) (pp. (cid:884)(cid:886)(cid:883)-247)- arch. About the poor: provides meager coverage of poor people & poverty, coverage provided is often distorted & misleading. The poor are undeserving: the media will provide us with sensational stories about welfare cheats, drug addicts, & greedy panhandlers. The poor have only themselves to blame: told that the poor live in a personal & cultural cycle of poverty that hopelessly imprisons them, the images that are seared into our mind are sexist, racist, & classist. About everyone else poverty & its root causes out of the public consciousness: develops strong sense of (cid:498)we-ness(cid:499) in their audience- seek to speak to and for an audience that is both affluent & like-minded. The wealthy (as a class) do not exist: while preoccupied with the concerns of the wealthy, the media fails to.