SOC 1100 Lecture 13: Soc Chapter 13

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

Document Summary

Gender: personalty traits and social positions that member of a society attach to being male or female. Gender strati cation: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Patriarchy: a form of social organization in which males dominate females. Matriarchy: a form of social organization in which females dominate males (has never been documented) Sexism: belief that one sex is innately superior to the other. Critical review: ignores many women have worked outside the home because of economic need. Thursday, november 19, 2015: ignores the personal strains and social cots of rigid, traditional gender roles, parson"s gender complementarity , assumes that women ought to submit to male domination. Friedrich engels: gender and class: men gained power over women as the productive technology advanced, private property contributed to male domination, they controlled the sexuality of women to identify male heirs, capitalism makes male domination even stronger.