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Definitions of whiteness in the United States. The legal and social strictures that define White Americans, and distinguish them from persons who are not considered white by the government and society, have varied throughout the history of the United States. Race is defined as a social and political category within society based on hierarchy.
Launched. 2007. Sociological Images is a blog that offers image-based sociological commentary and is one of the most widely read social science blogs. [1] Updated daily, it covers a wide range of social phenomena. The aim of the blog is to encourage readers to develop a "sociological imagination" and to learn to see how social institutions ...
Whiteness theory is a field under whiteness studies, that studies what white identity means in terms of social, political, racial, economic, culture, etc. [1] Whiteness theory posits that if some Western societies make whiteness central to their respective national and cultural identities, their white populations may become blind to the privilege associated with White identity.
Definition. White privilege is a social phenomenon intertwined with race and racism. [ 1] The American Anthropological Association states that, "The 'racial' worldview was invented to assign some groups to perpetual low status, while others were permitted access to privilege, power, and wealth." [ 19]
Whiteness studies is the study of the structures that produce white privilege, [ 1] the examination of what whiteness is when analyzed as a race, a culture, and a source of systemic racism, [ 2] and the exploration of other social phenomena generated by the societal compositions, perceptions and group behaviors of white people. [ 3]
In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard ), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. The concept and the social applications of the gaze have been defined and explained by existentialist and ...
Stereotypes of white Americans have been shown to vary according to socioeconomic status. [ 1] In general, stereotypes of white people portray upper class white Americans as WASPs and they portray lower class white Americans as "backward", "barely-educated" rednecks. [ 8] Rednecks, conversely are seen as "racist, hot-headed, too physical ...
Binary opposition is the system of language and/or thought by which two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. [ 1] It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right. [ 2] Binary opposition is an important concept of structuralism, which sees such ...