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GS Week 7 - Race and gender (Gender (The feminist school of thought…
GS Week 7 - Race and gender
Gender
A human with some combination of female and male genitalia is considered a hermaphrodite -> The Navajo loves
The feminist school
of thought advocates social equality for the sexes in opposition to patriarchy and sexism; p. 405
In Somalia, part of the cultural heritage is the ritual of female genital mutilation - something that can destroy lives
Queer theory
argued that most sociological theory has a bias towards heterosexuality and that non-heterosexual voices need to be heard -> these voices should be placed at the centre
Connell, 1995
Hegemonic masculinity has become the way of being a man in socity
Margaret Mead
1953, studied three societies of New Guinea, and noticed that in some societies, females were dominant
Race
Michael Mann's 'The Dark Side of Democracy'
A routine feature of democracy has become ethnic cleansing -> lead to some 70 million refugees in the 20th century alone
Pluralism
A state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but have social parity
Racialisation is the process of ranking people on basis of their presumed race - this process is at the heart of inequality and social exclusion
Minorities
Diasporas is the term describing discontent with the host land - 'Dispersal' of a population to other areas
Ethnicity
is the shared historical and cultural heritage of a peoples. It's not necessarily bound to race, because there is an 'imagined community' that is not biologically related to them
Prejudice
refers to unequal attitudes towards categories of people,
discrimination
refers to the unequal treatment of categories of people
Talcott Parsons 1951-54
Gender differences help to form a complementary set of roles that links men and women together into family units that carry out various functions vital to the operation of society
Nancy Chodorow
argues that there is a neglect of the psyche in this theory