TY - JOUR
T1 - Intersecting Cultural Beliefs in Social Relations
T2 - Gender, Race, and Class Binds and Freedoms
AU - Ridgeway, Cecilia L.
AU - Kricheli-Katz, Tamar
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - We develop an evidence-based theoretical account of how widely shared cultural beliefs about gender, race, and class intersect in interpersonal and other social relational contexts in the United States to create characteristic cultural "binds" and freedoms for actors in those contexts. We treat gender, race, and class as systems of inequality that are culturally constructed as distinct but implicitly overlap through their defining beliefs, which reflect the perspectives of dominant groups in society. We cite evidence for the contextually contingent interactional "binds" and freedoms this creates for people such as Asian men, Black women, and poor whites who are not prototypical of images embedded in cultural gender, race, and class beliefs. All forms of unprototypicality create "binds," but freedoms result from being unprototypical of disadvantaging rather than advantaging statuses.
AB - We develop an evidence-based theoretical account of how widely shared cultural beliefs about gender, race, and class intersect in interpersonal and other social relational contexts in the United States to create characteristic cultural "binds" and freedoms for actors in those contexts. We treat gender, race, and class as systems of inequality that are culturally constructed as distinct but implicitly overlap through their defining beliefs, which reflect the perspectives of dominant groups in society. We cite evidence for the contextually contingent interactional "binds" and freedoms this creates for people such as Asian men, Black women, and poor whites who are not prototypical of images embedded in cultural gender, race, and class beliefs. All forms of unprototypicality create "binds," but freedoms result from being unprototypical of disadvantaging rather than advantaging statuses.
KW - class
KW - gender
KW - race
KW - social psychology
KW - theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84877816914&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0891243213479445
DO - 10.1177/0891243213479445
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AN - SCOPUS:84877816914
SN - 0891-2432
VL - 27
SP - 294
EP - 318
JO - Gender and Society
JF - Gender and Society
IS - 3
ER -