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Defining Deviance and Intersectionality and the Polyamorous Relationships

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This is an assignment for a social work major class( make sure you know what social work is, social work is not sociology)
In this assignment you will be writing FOUR separate THREE-PAGE reading reflections.( total 12 pages not including references and title page for each reflection)
I’ve attached the required reading for each reflection( week of 2/11 2/18 2/25 3/03) there are no textbook so you just google the articles given and read them.
I’ve also attached the course syllabus and more detailed requirement of this assignment. Please read that carefully so you can get an idea of the course.
Let me know if you have any questions.
4 Reflection Papers:
You will submit a reflection paper based on the readings from one week’s session (double-spaced, 12 size font, 2.5-3 pg, Word doc, APA style optional). They are due on the day of the session, and you will submit 4 entries in total. Briefly identify the main ideas and perspectives and relate your reactions to your areas of academic or professional interests. Generally, students respond by exploring some of the following questions: new and/or challenging ideas presented by the readings; connections or conflicts; agree/like or disagree/dislike and why; application to field/future work experience, etc.

Defining Deviance, & IntersectionalitySession 3Feb 11,2020• Heckert & Heckert: “Using an Integrated Typology of

Deviance to Analyze Ten Middle-Class Norms of the U.S. Middle Class”
• Adewunmi: “Kimberle Crenshaw on intersectionality: ‘I
wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that anyone could use.”’
Read 2-3 articles of your choice:
• Earp: “Bovs and Girls Alike”
• Khazan: “Why Some Women Choose to Get Circumcised”
• Bruan: “In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure: Female
Genital ‘Cosmetic’ Surgery”
• Crenshaw: “Race to the Bottom”
• Nash: “Re-thinking Intersectionality”
• Wade: “Learning from Female Genital Mutilation”
Recommended:
• Crenshaw: “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity
Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color”
• Combahee River Collective: “The Combahee River
Collective Statement”• Hills: “Absolutism and Relativism View of Social
Deviance: Toward a Humanistic Perspective”
Read 2-3 articles of your choice:
• Gebrial: “Decolonizing Desire: The Politics of Love”
• Sheff & Hammers: “Polvamorous Women. Sexual
Subjectivity and Power”
• Marsh: “Love Among the Obiectum Sexuals”
• Simner, Hughes & Sagiv: “Obiectum Sexuality: A Sexual
Orientation Linked with Autism and Svnaesthesia”
• Foucault: Excerpts from The History of Sexuality, Part II
The Repressive Hypothesis
- “The Incitement to Discourse”
- “The Perverse Implantation”
• Apostolides: “The Pleasure of Pain”
• Ziegler, Matsick, Moors, Rubin, & Conley: “Does
Monogamy Harm Women? Deconstructing Monogamy with a Feminist Lens”
Recommended:
• Klesse: “Notions of Love in Polyamory—Elements in a
Discourse on Multiple Loving”
• Haritawom, Lin, & Klesse: “Poly/logue: A Critical
Introduction to Polyamory”
• Castello: “Cultural Relativism and the Study of Deviance”
• Atkinson & Young: “Flesh Journeys: The Radical Body
Modification of Neoprimitives”
• Robinson: “Polyamory and Monogamy as Strategic
Identities”Theories:
Relativism,
Absolutism
Topics:
Love, Desire, Beauty, SexualitySession 4Feb 18,2020• Spitzer: “Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance” or
• Wozniak et al.: “Richard Quinney’s The Social Reality of
Crime: A Marked Departure from the Reinterpretation of Traditional Criminology”
Read 3 articles of your choice:
• Nair: “From Queer to Gav: The Rise and Fall of Milo”
• Durkin: “Show Me the Money: Cybershrews and On-Line
Money Masochist”
■ Hasinoff, “Sexting as Media Production: Rethinking Social Media and Sexuality”
• Durkin & Hundersmarck, “Pedophiles and Child Molesters”
• Miller-Young: “Hip-Hop Honeys and Da Hustlas: Black
Sexualities in the New Hip-Hop Pornography”
• Jones: “’I Get Paid to Have Orgasm’: Adult Webcam
Models’ Negotiation with Pleasure and Danger”
• Sheff: “The Privilege of Perversities: Race, Class and
Education Among Polyamorists and Kinksters”
Recommended:
• Nair: “Can We Talk?: Censorship. Pedophilia, and Panic”
• Lippman & Campbell: “Damned If You Do, Damned If You
Don’t.. If You’re a Girl: Relational and Normative Contexts of Adolescent Sexting in the United States.”
• Calvin: “Why I Visit Prostitutes”Session 5Theories:
Social Power, Conflict Theory
Topics:
Desire, Beauty, Sexuality Part IIFeb 25,2020Durkheim: “Functionalism: The Normal and the Pathological”
• Gans: “The Positive Functions of Poverty”
Read 2-3 articles of your choice:
Feldman: “Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection”
Badger: “Whv the Poor Pav More for Toilet Paper -and Just About Everything Else”
Gans: “The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All”
Cottom: “Whv Do Poor People ‘Waste’ Money on Luxury Goods?”
Delgado: “US Blood Plasma Industry Targets Poor and Working Class”
Valiente, Abdelmalek, & Pearle: “Whv Thousands of Low-Income Americans ‘Donate’ Their Blood Plasma to For-Profit Centers”
Thompson: “A Functionalist Theory of Social Domination”
Recommended:
• Jaravel: “The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations: Evidence from the US Retail Sector”
• Feldman: “Ex-Sanitation Salvage Workers Protest: “All We
Want Is for Them to Pav Us What They Owe Us”
Edin & Shaefter: “Blood Plasma. Sweat, and Tears”
Shaefer & Ochoa: “How Blood-Plasma Companies Target the Poorest Americans”Session 6Theory:
Functionalism
Topic:
PovertyMar 3,2020

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Defining Deviance and Intersectionality
Many societies around the world have established standards and basic ways of doing various things. These standards have consequently led to their beliefs and values that are passed down from one generation to the next. All members of these societies are expected and supposed to follow these standards, beliefs and values and failure to which they are shunned and discriminated. Some societies even belief that those who don’t conform and adhere to these standards are likely to receive curses and have disappointments throughout their lives. Despite these strong principles and allegiance to defined and historical standards and beliefs, there are individuals who remain adamant on following them and as such, are considered deviant. Deviance relates to all actions and behaviors that are contrary to societal norms and can also be considered as being illegal. Over the years, matters relating to sexuality have particularly been contentious issues. For one, while male circumcision is highly encouraged and practiced all over the world, female circumcision is practiced by very few communities and in some cases, done in secrecy. In this regard, it is considered to be an act of mutilation because it imposes more harm than good on female genitalia. Similarly, issues have been raised in regard to intersectional people. According to Nash (2008), “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.". Intersectional individuals and women who embrace female circumcision have one thing in common in that they are discriminated in society.
It is essential to note that the act of circumcision has been practiced in many societies globally since time immemorial. It is considered a rite of passage that sees young boys become men and as such, are ready to be given extra responsibilities. Therefore, circumcision has predominantly been practiced and encouraged on persons of the male gender and associated with various benefits. It is believed that circumcision assists to decrease the risk of urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases. It also not only helps in keeping the male genitalia clean but also protects against penile cancer. Nonetheless, female circumcision is also an aspect that is practiced in some societies, albeit in secrecy. Unlike male circumcision that is done to mark transition from boyhood to manhood, female circumcision is done for completely different reasons. Braun (2005) shares that female circumcision is also known as female genital mutilation and “involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons”. It is estimated that over 200 million girls have undergone or rather been forced to undertake female circumcision to be accepted in society and by the community.
Considering that experts have shared that female circumcision harbors no health and medical benefits, I strongly believe that the action perpetuates gender inequality. Some of the com...
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