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Global commodity chain

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Worldwide network of labour and production processes whose end result is a finished commodity

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Special financial deals are used to lure corporations to set up shop and provide jobs for locals

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Socially constructed category of people who share certain biologically transmitted traits

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Harmful discrimination of a group of people considered of a certain race based on the belief that their race makes them inferior and deserving of being harmed/disadvantaged. Both an ideology and a practice

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A shared cultural heritage eg. common ancestry, history, language, religion, tradition, cultural values and norms, art, music

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Claiming difference from one’s self for the purpose of insinuating the other person’s/country’s/region’s/gender’s/disability/age/class/culture/race’s inferiority (eg. racism is a system of othering)

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Rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people, irrational judgements not founded on evidence

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Fixed and over-simplified description applied to everyone in a category

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Unequal treatment of categories of people

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Sex division is the primary division in society, women have been constructed as the Other to men (the universal human being), women are sexualized. Gender itself must be questioned and eliminated. Form women to be liberated, women’s bodies must be separated from the process of childbearing

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Customs and law decide the sexes into 2 arbitrary gender roles. They advocate for expending the rights and opportunities of women without changes the basic structure of society. Women should advance according to their own efforts rather than working collectively for change as long as legal and cultural barriers are removed

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Class inequality is the root of women’s oppression. Gender inequality cannot be eliminated without eliminating class inequality

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Systemic, cultural, environmental (hazards that disproportionately affects minorities), institutional (like systemic, but only present in 1 system such as health care), individual (acting on racist beliefs) SICIE

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A status that can be occupied by a person, which has a set of norms attached to it, and which therefore has patterns of behaviour associated with it

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- How we believe we appear to others - How we think others judge that appearance - How we feel about that Others are our mirror. Our perceptions of what others think is what matters in how we see ourselves

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Any position in socially organized life that an individual can occupy, and that is recognized by other people eg. brother, librarian, soccer player. One’s social position, unrankable.

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Prestige/honour. Used to indicate the relative ‘social worth’ of something or someone, like a role, group or person, according to prevailing standards. Hierarchical concept.

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Viewed as being without thoughts and feelings

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The process through which people acquire culture. Through this, people move from simply being human being to being members of a specific society, subgroups within that society, and sometimes collectivities that transcend societies. Socialization is one of the most central processes in social life.

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Physical strength, exercising violence, dominating women

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Self awareness and self-image - Develops through social interaction - Finish the sentance “I am…” - Humans have interpretive capacity - ascribing meaning to objects as opposed to just reacting to them as stimuli - Social interaction involves seeing ourselves as others see us - a process known as “taking the role of others” Me: What you take from others I: autonomous, indépendant

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- Significant Other - folks in the early socialization of children - Generalized other - culture, media, government - Primary socialization - socialization that happens during childhood that enables a human being to become social - Secondary socialization - subsequent socialization that follows outside the family, after childhood

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- Serves as an agent of socialization - Regulates sexual activity - Procreation and taking care of children and the elderly - Nuclear heterosexual family is the ideal social unit in which to raise children - Gender inequality within the family based on a gendered division of labour promotes family stability

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- Gender inequality emerged with the emergence of the 1st-class-based (wealth unequal) societies - Family structure is related to the development of the forces of production - Gender inequality and families based on male domination over the female, emerged in societies with wealth inequality - Class inequality (unequal ownership over property) gave rise to the patriarchal monogamous family characterized by - Concern by males that females bear their children for inheritance purposes, so monogamy is imposed - Sexuality becomes a commodity (can be bought/sold eg the woman is seen as something that is consumed) leading to male infidelity

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conservative religious doctrine that opposes intellectualism and worldly accommodation and seeks to restore traditional religion

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A social institution consisting of beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred (extra-ordinary that transcends everyday experience)

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Belief based on the conviction rather than scientific evidence

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Belief that elements of the natural world are conscious life forms; everything that is part of nature contains a divine element

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Sustains social inequality (when certain ideas, claimed to be religious by a certain group in society, are in reality beneficial for the group’s interests) - Suffering in this life but being rewarded in heaven - Discouraging violence and encouraging forgiveness

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Social cohesion through shared symbolic values, beliefs, and norms. Social control

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- Agent of socialization - cultural values and norms | - Teach new generations the roles and skills they need to be functional citizens

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- Teach meanings | - Development of self through social interaction, the sense of self we develop is based on how we think others see us

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- Promotes the use of agency in ways that reproduce the structure - A mechanisms for transmitting dominant ideology: promotes values such as competition, individualism, individual merit, and consumerism - Reproduces social inequalities- relationship between socioeconomic status and student success

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