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Significance of Race, Class & Gender

Significance of Race, Class & Gender. Defining Terms Oppression Race Class Gender Intersections. Oppression.

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Significance of Race, Class & Gender

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  1. Significance of Race, Class & Gender • Defining Terms • Oppression • Race • Class • Gender • Intersections

  2. Oppression • attitudes, behaviors, and pervasive and systematic social arrangements by which members of one group are exploited and subordinated while members of another group are granted privileges

  3. Oppression (continued) • Sociological definition • Ascribed statuses • Reverse discrimination

  4. Oppression (cont.) • Individual and Institutional

  5. Race • biologically transmitted traits that members of a society deem socially significant • Examples include skin color and facial features

  6. Class • Composite social ranking based on education, income, wealth and occupation • Typical categories include lower, working, middle and upper

  7. Gender • Sex - the biological identity of a person as either female or male • Gender-the socially learned behaviors and expectations associated with the two sexes • Feminine and masculine

  8. Intersections • Salience • Matrix of Domination • race, class and gender simultaneously structure our experiences • Implications

  9. Theories on Gender (cont.) 3) Matrix of Domination (Hill Collins) • race, class and gender simultaneously structure our experiences • implications

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