SOC 0851 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Heterosexuality, Masculinity, Hegemonic Masculinity
27 May 2018
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• These identities interact dynamically in any given situation
• Race, class, gender, and sexual orientation work as social
structures in a matrix of domination, which means that the
social structures of race, class, gender, and sexual
orientation work with and through each other so that any
individual experiences each of these categories differently
depending on his or her unique social location
• Cannot separate gender from other identities
• Gender needs the social structures of race, class, and
sexual orientation to work
• The ideal of the housewife had gender, class, and
racial implications, and leaving out any of these
social structures results in an incomplete
understanding of how and why the ideal of the
housewife developed in Anglo-European society
• Social structures are interlocking and simultaneous
• Because of interlocking and simultaneous nature of
categories of difference, they can produce both
oppression and privilege – it’s possile to e oth
oppressed and privileged
• Using an intersectional approach allows for a fuller
examination of how identities like race, class, gender, and
sexual orientation work themselves out in the lived
experiences of real people
o Intersectionality is a way of thinking about sameness and
difference and its relation to power
• Integrative Theories
o Bring all of the very different theories together into some
coherent whole
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