Ch 4. Understanding Intersectionality

Question 1

Refers to the understanding that human beings occupy various social positions which shape them. Ranges from ethnicity, culture, race, class, nationality, spirituality, language, religion, sexuality, age, ability, gender, education

Answer 1

Intersectionality

Question 2

What are the three types of intersectionality highlighted in literature?

Answer 2

• Inclusion/Voice Models (impact of having a gender and interacting with an institution where that gender is oppressed)
• Relational/Process Models
• Systematic/Anti-Categorical Models (the combination of any of the disadvantages looks different based on what is being combined, creating very particular experiences)

Question 3

who coined the term “intersectionality”?

Answer 3

Kimberlee Crenshaw in 1989

Question 4

What are the four domains of power (consider Foucault’s micro-power)?

Answer 4

Interpersonal power
Disciplinary power
Cultural power
Structural power

Question 5

how is power demonstrated in personal interactions?

Answer 5

Interpersonal Power

Question 6

how does power show up in the ways that individuals are disciplined or treated differently by institutions?

Answer 6

Disciplinary Power

Question 7

what are the cultural ideologies that maintain intersectionality?

Answer 7

Cultural Power

Question 8

how does the organization of an institution (or society) disadvantage others based on intersecting identities?

Answer 8

Structural Power

Question 9

Human beings do not occupy a single social status and the social problems that human beings experiences must be understood in terms of their multiple statuses. Understanding relationships and power dynamics associated with the social statuses are crucial to understanding the experiences of humans.

Answer 9

key principles of intersectionality