Social Class
Any resource that an individual has that gives them advantages in that context.
Capital
According to Bulter, this is a performance that follows a script, which isn’t a natural, fixed, or stable identity. It isn’t a property that a person intrinsically has.
Gender
This model argues that disability is a (biological) property of individual bodies/minds.
The Medical Model
The integration of racism into everyday situations through practices… that activate underlying power relations"
Everyday Racism
Builds from ideas about mass media (one-to-many communication), where those communicating can’t directly know their full audiences/publics, so they have to imagine them.
Examples: newspapers & sense of nation; movie stars & their fans
Imagined Audiences
A form of judgment that we use to classify other things, but that also says something about us.
Taste
Classifies people into gender binary (men/women) based on presumption of inherent (biological/natural)
differences.
The Dominant view of gender (which Butler was writing against)
This model argues that disability isn’t an individual trait but the product of relations between persons and their social environments.
The Social Model (Varenne & McDermott reading)
A racist idea that becomes embedded in material things, such as film technology.
Racist Artifacts
A form of self-commodification and personal branding where individuals strategically manage their online presence to retain social status and increase monetization.
Durable and transposable dispositions/inclinations through which we perceive, judge, and act in the world. This is what lets some situations seem familiar, natural, normal, or ”common-sensical”
Habitus
“the mundane way in which bodily gestures, movements, and enactments of various kinds constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self."
Example: fashion, hair, crossing your legs
A performative act OR A stylized repetition of acts
In the text "Adam, Adam, Adam," the common sense verdict said Adam had a psychological problem, as defined by peer comparisons of individual reading & writing competencies. However, McDermott & Varenne’s assessment says: Adam had a _____ problem?
Cultural Problem
School segregation is an example of how everyday racism has been _______.
historically structured
Online, you can also have many-to-many communication that’s not necessarily organized around a central person or media publication. These can be organized around niche interests (similar to social worlds).
Networked Publics
“arenas of struggle” over how capital gets distributed (in all of its forms)
Fields
people are routinely ____ for doing gender “incorrectly," and ____ for doing their gender "correctly"
people are routinely _PUNISHED_ for doing gender “incorrectly," and _REWARDED_for doing their gender "correctly."
The term for the surroundings or conditions in which a person lives or operates. This can include the setting or conditions in which a particular activity is carried on.
Environment
Excluded racialized ‘others’ return as cultural objects of nostalgia, longing, fascination, & desire for dominant groups.
Fetishization
Through an online presence, people strategically conceal and reveal (typically personal) information to present themselves in a particular way.
Authenticity
Everything we take for granted: ‘the natural attitude of everyday life.' Shared opinions and unquestioned beliefs.
Easier to see in ‘other’ cultures and periods of history.
Doxa
Gender isn’t wholly individual, because the individual acts follow pre-existing _____ that are passed down over time.
Gendered scripts
In their text, Varenne and McDermott argue that in order for Adam to be considered disabled, others had to recognize, document, and remediate the disability. They refer to this as the learning disability “______” Adam.
Acquiring
In her text, Essed brings together BOTH ____ & _____ accounts of racism by looking at the workings and consequences of race and ethnic relations in everyday social practices (not just focusing on institutions or just focusing on individual acts, but how they work together).
structural AND cultural
Boyd and Markwick's term for the flattening of multiple audiences into a single space online.
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