Lecture 7+8

Question 1

Connections between education, sex, gender, sexuality

Answer 1

• Education = gender intensification process
• Experience education differently
• Glorified traits
• Education perpetuates heteronormative ideas
• Structure of education = feminized
• Frats / sororities = gendered/sex/sexuality norms (old school traditional)

Question 2

Gender Wage Gap in Canada

Answer 2

• 89 cents
• Converging slowly
• Women got devalued as times changed

Question 3

Gender Inequality from a global perspective

Answer 3

• Women constitute70% of the worlds absolute poor
• Women are less likely to be educated
• Women are more likely to be trafficked
• Women are more likely to work in transnational factories
• Take on the roles of the water bearers
• ¼ women are likely to be abused
• 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation

Question 4

How / why gender wage gap?

Answer 4

• Women = less physically present at work
• Statistically women work less hours
• Women continue to be responsible for childcare and house hold duties
• Men are more present at work
• Glass door in Canada
  
  • Women continue to earn less than men who have the same levels of education / experience
• 1/5 leaderships positions are held by women glass ceiling
  o 394/500 top corporate have 0 women

Question 5

Sexual consent

Answer 5

Has to be clear, active, ongoing, willing and coherent

Question 6

Social category

Answer 6

Physical characteristics that we denote social meaning (Race)

Question 7

Minority group

Answer 7

Social category that occupies a subordinate rank on social society hierarchy (LGBTQ)

Question 8

Stereotype

Answer 8

• Mental exaggeration or measuring rod
• Pseudo +
• Something that seems positive but not.

Question 9

Discrimination = action

Answer 9

• Individualistic
  o Overt
   Own emotions
  o Adaptive
   Perceived stereotypes of others
• Systemic
  o Organization, government, corporate

Question 10

Ethnicity

Answer 10

• Self defined
• Modifiable and variable that can be changed

Question 11

What is racism?

Answer 11

• Ideology that regards racial or ethnic categories as natural, biological or genetic groupings
• Critical race theorists argue that race is a social construct.

Question 12

Pluralism

Answer 12

• Refers to a state in which racial and ethnic groups maintain their distinctiveness to an extent
• Equal access to social resources
• Canada is pluralist

Question 13

Assimilation

Answer 13

• The process by which formally distinct and separate groups merge together and become one integrated whole.
• America is assimilation

Question 14

Secondary assimilation

Answer 14

• When groups come together in public areas and social institutions

Question 15

Primary assimilation

Answer 15

• When members of different groups are integrated in personal and intimate associations such as friends, family and spouses.

Question 16

Amalgamation

Answer 16

• When different ethnic or racial groups become married or pair-bonded and produce children

Question 17

Segregation

Answer 17

• Physical separation of two groups in residence, workplace and social functions
• Indigenous people
• Can be forced and self selected

Question 18

Colonialism

Answer 18

This occurs when a racial or ethnic group from one society dominates the racial or ethnic groups of another society.

Question 19

Genocide

Answer 19

• Systematic annihilation of an entire nation or group of people
• Indigenous and Chinese in Canada

Question 20

Race

Answer 20

• Social construct
• Racism = real biological concept

Question 21

Famous Critical Race Theorists

Answer 21

• Kimberlie Crenshaw
  (Lawyer, Founder of principle intersectionality, most famous CRT)
• Bell hooks

Question 22

Critical race theory = Race = Social Construct

Answer 22

• Argues that race theory is embedded into our social structures
• Jane Elliot
• argues racist society

Question 23

AVERSIVE RACISM

Answer 23

• Subtle, often unintended form of racism that is exhibited by many well-intentioned people
• “pro-white”.

Question 24

MODERN RACISM

Answer 24

• Rejection of traditional racist beliefs, with a displacement of those traditional racist beliefs into more abstract and social or political issues. - - - Here the blamed for continuing racial inequity is placed on minority race groups for perpetuating inequality with demands for affirmative action.

Question 25

Race + Education

Answer 25

- CRT Education = perpetuates racism - Republicans ban teaching around race - 1960s – 1980s Ban Marxism = indoctrination

Question 26

4. Color lines Continue to Divide

Answer 26

- W.E.DuBois - Famous for introducing race ideology - Argues we are still divided to color lines and education - John Porter - Argues same thing as Dubois while using the vertical mosaic

Question 27

Vertical mosiac

Answer 27

- Ethnic Hierarchy ranking - - Made up of different ethnic groups wielding varying degrees of social and economic power, prestige and status. In Canadian society, various ethnic groups are stratified.

Question 28

How do Color lines Continue to Divide

Answer 28

- Standardized test scores - Race + Social Class - USA educational system - Segregated schools

Question 29

Color lines Continue to Divide in Canada

Answer 29

- Robyn Maynard a. Leading BLM in Canada b. Lawyer from Toronto - Sept 2016 a. Black 6 year old in handcuffs - Education as equalizer a. Rhetorical b. Students experience i. Degradation ii. Harm iii. Psychological violence iv. Neglect v. Increase in surveillance

Question 30

Robyn Maynard Argues

Answer 30

1. Streamed 2. Teachers low expectations 3. Second generation segregation = racialized streaming 4. Symbolic violence = Bourdieu 5. Inferior + threat = movements monitored a. Black students 8x more likely to face discipline i. 2011-2016 ½ of students that were expelled were black and only 10% population

Question 31

Anti racism

Answer 31

- To move beyond not being racist - Promoting the movement - Dismantling inequalities + social structure - Ally – Accomplice - co-conspirator