Intersectionality
Race
Medicalization
Privilege and Cultural Capital
Theories 101
100
What is Intersectionality?
an integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.
100
Due to gendered racism ...
a. Emma DeGraffenreid was denied a job
b. Black women receive the majority of attention as victims of police brutality.
c. white women select Asian men far more frequently than Asian women select white men on a dating website.
a.
100
What is medicalization?
the process in which conditions and behaviors are labeled and treated as medical issues
100
Define cultural capital, give at least two examples of cultural capital.
values, knowledge, skills, and ideas that are valued in a given culture, society, and social group/ symbols, ideas, tastes and preferences that can be strategically used as resources.
ex: Clothing brands, traveling
100
A Marxist would be most interested in the following:
a. Conflict and interpersonal interactions
b. Conflict and resource scarcity
c. Medicalization and the Bourgeoisie
d. Economy and social regulation
b.
Conflict theory, first developed by Karl Marx, is a theory that society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources.
200
What is the problem with this model and why isn't this intersectionality?
Race + class+ gender+ sexuality + ability status= identity
This is an additive model of intersectionality. These are not like separate layers, one on top of the other, but integrated. We can not add up who is the most marginal. Rather we must see these as interlocking systems of oppression.
(For Example: Race is always gendered and gender is always racialized)
200
Which is the best sociological definition of race, according to
sociologist Ann Morning?
a) a group of people who share cultural similarities.
b) group of people who share biological similarities.
c) groupings of people believed to share common descent, based on perceived innate physical similarities
d) groupings of people who embody distinct, innate, and permanent traits
c
200
How has perceptions of obesity changed over time?
Obesity was once associated with wealth it is now associated with poverty.
200
Define habitus:
a person’s general constitution, the way a person reacts to the world, both emotionally (mentally and physically like body and posture) it refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capital, to the deeply socially ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions (they the see and react to the world) due to our life experiences. (habitus is shaped by our social class religion, nationality, race, education, gender, profession etc...)
200
A symbolic interactionist would most likely:
a. study census demographics
b. do ethnography at a local bar
c. run an experiment on what makes babies cry
d. analyze historical clippings of WW1
b.
300
Draw on the board a better representation of intersectionality:
300
What is Mary Waters’ concern with symbolic ethnicity?
It leads white people to think about
race as individual and voluntary
and not structural
300
Short answer:
How does Abigail Saguy’s analysis of fatness demonstrate the sociological imagination? Be sure to explain what a sociological imagination is.
...
300
In what ways does Khan's opinion differ from the elite student's he studies, regarding what makes one successful?
Students: believe they are talented and hardworking/ believes in the myth of meritocracy
Khan: they are taught how to be elite, students are given cultural capital, networks, and afforded opportunity/ does not believe in the myth of meritocracy
300
What is meso theory? Why is it important in sociology?
analysis of large-scale macro forces such as the economy or human societies and everyday human social interactions on a small scale.
Outlines the relationship between micro and macro.
400
What are the different cultural constructions of white womanhood versus Black womanhood? What are the ramifications of these constructions?
White womanhood:
Undersexed, beauty, passive, weak, needing + deserving of protection
Black womanhood:oversexed, aggressive, overly strong, undeserving of protection
400
What is racialization?
political process of ascribing racial
identities to a group, aims to continue /reproduce domination and social exclusion, perceptions emerge of innate differences between groups
400
What are some (at least two) environmental factors account for the obesity epidemic?
Sedentary work for adults
•Sedentary activities for children
•Fast-food
•“Food deserts” in low-income
neighborhoods
•Cheap production of caloric foods
•Cheap, large portions lure cost-conscious
400
What is an example of social closure?
EX.) Guidance counselors helping students who are "like them" get into colleges.
400
Which sociologist is most interested in social regulation and integration?
a. Weber
b. Durkheim
c. Goffman
d. Marx
b.
500
Short answer practice: take an intersectional approach to discussing police violence:
Potential answers:
-Black masculinity is hyper policed, especially in low-income neighborhoods
-Black women receive less attention for police violence. EX.) "Say her name"
500
Explain some of the trends in racial preferences:
500
Explain a condition, illness, etc... that has been medicalized? What impact did medicalization have on the way we see that condition?
EX.) medicalization normalized and de-stigmatized depression, medicalization and moral constructions associated with fatness, trans people have to give really digestible narratives around gender to access transition care.
500
Short answer practice: Explain the relationship between cultural capital and habitus. Get specific in your explanation and use examples
...
500
Give an example of something that you now know to be a social construction, but didn't think of it that way before taking this class?
Be detailed in your answer as if you were writing a short answer:
ex) (could be a lot of things) gender, race, beauty, etc...