SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Androgyny, Gender Inequality, Ascribed Status
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Derived from liberal ideology (this is about individualism, the importance of individual rights) Ascriptive status: status you are born into (born as male/female, ethnicity/racial group, various economic classes) Achievement status: things we do as individuals you work hard, go to school, get good job, exercise, eat right, healthy (*** this should be more important) In an ideal society, the achieved status would be most important; ascribed status doesn"t matter. Sex should not prevent achievement equal rights and opportunities. Biology is irrelevant this doesn"t matter; what matters is that everyone should. Gender inequality: who loses? have equal rights (regardless of their gender); individual should be treated equally. Work within the system you have to allow both genders the ability to achieve equal opportunities; equal pay legislation, Trebilcot the argument from nature ****read this. Sex roles: the ideas that we have men that are expected to do certain roles because they are male; same goes for women/female.
