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Summary Of Race, Class And Gender, By Patricia Hill Collins

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The different frameworks in which social constructivism works in, affect and interconnect one another. Furthermore, race works as an inseparable unit with power and privilege in the sense that, the implications embedded into one’s race will associate and impact with the powers and privileges that individual will uphold in society. But as Patricia Hill Collins expressed in her reading (1993/2017), power works in 3 interconnected systems; Race, Class and Gender, where they allow for the comprehension between domination and subordination. These systems do not work independently but instead work hand in hand as an interlocking classification for analysis, to create notion about an individual without having to interact (Collins, 1993/2017). Patricia Hill Collins as well goes on to explain the difference between power and privilege, highlighting one huge point of how the privileged side of society does not and cannot relate to the unprivileged. …show more content…

It is believed that the more power you have, the more privileges you will sustain therefore, this explains the concept of Hegemony and how the ideologies of the individuals in power, constructs the mentality of the oppressed to believe in those ideologies and think they are their own. An example used in lecture by Professor Humana (2017), was the movie Titanic, while the ship was sinking the first-class people got a chance to leave the ship and survive, yet the lower-class individuals were locked in, so they did not take up room on the boats. In this case the class of individuals was depicted as a way to analyse who is more worth living over others, privilege works in a way that literally is able to spare one’s life if they uphold it. In this example Hegemony works by making the lower classed people think the way that they are being treated is fine (Humana,

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