KINE 1000 Chapter Notes -Discourse Analysis, Connotation, Private School

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Yuka Nakamura

Document Summary

Toward a new vision: race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and connection. To find oppressor: new vision of what oppression is, new categories of analysis race, class, gender in structures of oppression. People act and feel different ways because of race, social class or gender categories. Additive analysis of oppression: dichotomous thinking, dichotomous differences must be ranked, rests on two twin pillars. Institutional oppression occurs when established laws, customs, and practices systematically reflect and produce inequities based on one"s membership in targeted social identity groups. Interlocking nature of race, class and gender structuring the institutional dimension of oppression. Symbolic dimension of oppression is the stereotyping of genders, races, class etc: symbolic images, when applied differently to race, class and gender groups, work to maintain the systems of domination and subordination. Individual dimension of oppression is the stereotyping of gender, race and class in yourself, setting a path based on how you are oppressed.