SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Binary Opposition, Class Discrimination, Ethnocentrism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

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Women are concentrated in lower paying occupations: thus: differences in occupational concentration leads to differences in wages. 4: two questions which stem from this, 1. Are women in the labour force discriminated against in terms of what they are paid for working: 2. The second shift: wives in a dual-earning family average 15 hours more work each week than their husbands, very little time left over for children and family. Nuclear family form, monogamous marriage and men"s control of women"s sexuality are all intertwined from need to ensure paternity: symbolic interactionism. Interactionists look at gender identity as constantly changing, negotiated and in flux: will challenge the idea that sex is natural and biological. 7: believe we learn to be sexual, what to desire and not to desire through dominant discourses, gender as performance". Judith butler: gender cannot be thought of as having some essential basis, no authentic femininity and masculinity rooted in male and female bodies, gender is a performance.