SOC 205 University of Arizona Global Campus Paradigm Shifts Discussion Questions

I’m working on a sociology writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

• Explain why it is important to include unique perspectives such as race and gender in general theoretical works as presented in the introductory essay.
• As presented in the introductory essay, explain the concept of discursive domination.
• What does Collins mean when she describes Black feminist thought as “subjugated knowledge”?
• Collins argues that particular criteria of positivism—an epistemological approach that upholds the scientific method—are especially problematic for black feminist thought. Identify these criteria and describe in your own words how it leads to the oppression of alternative knowledge.
• Collins is perhaps best known for her concept of “intersectionality” in which multiple systems of oppression, or what Collins calls the matrix of domination, overlap to create systematic inequality that each of us faces in our own unique way. Draw upon your own lived experience to describe a concrete situation in which you found yourself at the center of a matrix of domination, either as a victim or as an oppressor.