Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Rational Choice Theory and Methodological Individualism
- 2 Network Theories
- 3 Cultural Sociology
- 4 Identity
- 5 Emotions Theory
- 6 Theorizing Sex/Gender: Feminist Social Theory
- 7 Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
- 8 Modernity
- 9 Realism
- 10 Globalization: Not Good, Bad, or Over
- 11 Time/Space
- 12 Social Theory in the Anthropocene: Ecological Crisis and Renewal
- 13 Embodiment
- 14 Sexualities
- 15 Multiculturalism
- 16 Risk
- 17 Trust and the Variety of Its Bases
- 18 Unities Within Conflict: Mapping Biology’s Relevance to Sociological Theory
- 19 Civil Society
- 20 Social Movements: Sequences vs Fuzzy Temporality
- 21 Immigration
- Index
- References
7 - Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Rational Choice Theory and Methodological Individualism
- 2 Network Theories
- 3 Cultural Sociology
- 4 Identity
- 5 Emotions Theory
- 6 Theorizing Sex/Gender: Feminist Social Theory
- 7 Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
- 8 Modernity
- 9 Realism
- 10 Globalization: Not Good, Bad, or Over
- 11 Time/Space
- 12 Social Theory in the Anthropocene: Ecological Crisis and Renewal
- 13 Embodiment
- 14 Sexualities
- 15 Multiculturalism
- 16 Risk
- 17 Trust and the Variety of Its Bases
- 18 Unities Within Conflict: Mapping Biology’s Relevance to Sociological Theory
- 19 Civil Society
- 20 Social Movements: Sequences vs Fuzzy Temporality
- 21 Immigration
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores, in two sections, the connection between intersectionality and critical social theory.The first provides an overview of intersectionality’s emerging canon, paying careful attention to its understandings of and approaches to social inequality. The second section positions intersectionality in a landscape of traditional and critical social theory that is alternatively contentious and complimentary.
Capitalism, critical theory, inequality, intersectionality, nationalism, racism, sexism
Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland.An expert on race, gender, and class, her major works include Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge, 1990) and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (Routledge, 2004), and Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (Duke University Press, 2019).She served as the 100th President of the American Sociological Association.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 120 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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