Category: Intersectionality
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Sociology is dangerous! Why authoritarians and their supporters attack sociology
The Trump Administration censors sociological knowledge In 2025, the Trump Administration banned words that sociologists regularly use from appearing on government websites and publicly-funded school curricula materials, according to a report from The New York Times. In the banned word list: activism, inequality, intersectionality, gender, historically, political, underrepresentation, socioeconomic, and…
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Sociological Methods for Psychology Students
University of Warsaw: Social Research Specialization Course title Current Topics in Sociology – A Methodological Approach Instructor dr. hab. Joshua K. Dubrow Contact details jdubrow2000[at]gmail.com Affiliation Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, and the Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR), of the Polish Academy of Sciences Course format Seminar Number of…
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Quantitative Approaches to Intersectionality: The Small n Problem
A challenge for intersectional survey research is the “Small n Problem”: when there are too few observations in the sample to permit the desired analysis. To perform the multivariate quantitative techniques popular in analyses of survey data, we need an adequate number of cases in each category. For instance, if…
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Intersectionality is Everywhere
Three decades after Kimberle Crenshaw popularized the term “intersectionality,” it has become mainstream. The term is mainstream because it is the truth and because elements of society who are against the idea that we should recognize the deep-seated issues of historically marginalized groups have seized on it as a rallying…
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The Concept and Measurement of Power in Intersectionality
The idea of power is inherent to intersectionality. In this post, we discuss how the concept of power is integral to the concept and framework of intersectionality, and how to measure power structures. Intersectionality is about politics and the use of power. Noted intersectionality scholar Patricia Hill Collins (2015: 3)…
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Approaches to Intersectionality
What are the major approaches to intersectionality? In studying the influence of identity on attitudes and behavior, there are two major approaches to intersectionality, with some important internal divisions. One is a unitary, or additive, approach, and the other can be called the multiplicative approach. I present the essence of…
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