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- Title
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION RACE, GENDER AND CLASS SECTION SURVEY REPORT.
- Authors
Wallace, Gail
- Abstract
In this article, the author presents information on the Race, Gender and Class report issued by the American Sociological Association. Information was gathered from department chairs, administrators, and professors in Sociology, Women Studies and Racial Ethnic Studies within Sociology to assess a comprehensive range of issues to move the field of Race, Gender and Class (RGC) Studies forward. Emphasizing intersectionality and the embeddedness of RGC as complex systems of oppression are germane to the Sociological Discipline as a distinct disciplinary area in its own right. The time is long overdue and this report is the first in a series to explain the push for an RGC Discipline that gives attention to an important area of sociological inquiry spanning Racial and Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, and Social Class. Social inequality concentration areas for the most part do not capture the combined elements of RGC analysis and thus many of the critical elements of this discipline are decentralized within singular Race Only, Gender Only and Social Class Only courses; courses that do offer intersectional approaches are open to a full range of tools that are the hallmark of RGC studies. Fragmenting aspects of RGC and then claiming to fully cover intersectional approaches is problematic because the discipline is not being fully acknowledged for its objectives, goals and social force within the discipline of Sociology.
- Subjects
RACE; GENDER; SOCIAL classes; AMERICAN Sociological Association; SOCIOLOGY; GOAL (Psychology); SOCIAL problems
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2005, Vol 12, Issue 1, p170
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article