SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Productive Forces, Social Issue, Glass Ceiling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Gender stratification: where men have traditionally been and are placed in positions of power over women to. Gender is more than differences in how women and men are expected to behave. Gender is also an important dimension of social stratification this day. Gender and inequality: gender: personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being male or female, gender stratification: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Male/female differences: we must be careful not to think of social differences in biological terms. Differences in physical abilities, but in athletics the gap is smaller today. Differences in abilities reflect both biology and socialization. No difference in overall intelligence between males and females. Gender in global perspective: margaret mead"s research: culture is the key to gender differences, george murdock"s research: in pre-industrial societies, hunting and warfare belong to.