P. Currah's Core 3 Section
Questions on W. Chafe's article on social control
Reading: William Chafe, "Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control"
1. Why does Chafe concentrate his analysis on the forms of social control, rather than the substance of particular instances of racism and sexism?
2. What are the four "concentric circles of social control" that Chafe describes? Describe their characteristics.
3. How do the four types of social control operate together in the examples of Wright's Black Boy?
4. How does resistance operate within such a system?
5. How do the forms of social control work to oppress women? Give examples.
6. Identify a form of social control that you experience every day. Is it possible to resist it?
7. Why is the development of a collective consciousness important in resisting social control?
8. Using Chafe's discussion of power, write a couple of paragraphs that explains how power operates in these situations: 1) a segregated lunch counter in the South; 2) a gay man, closeted at work, doesn't demand benefits for his male partner.
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