SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Role, Hegemonic Masculinity, Mass Media

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Jordan Brown

Document Summary

Sex indicates physical differences b/w men and women. Sex category: identification and social recognition as a member of one sex. Gender concerns cultural and psychological differences gender role socialization. Learning of gender roles through social factors such as schooling, the media, and family. Social construction of gender: the learned of gender roles through socialization and interaction w others. How gender differences are learned: positive and negative sanctions for practices of masculine or feminine behavior. What is patriarchy: male dominance in society, few known societies that are not patriarchal, degree of inequality b/w sexes varies across cultures, women in the u. s. have made considerable progress but are still unequal in many years. Gender stratification: unequal access to power, prestige and property based on gender differences. Usually more prestige is given to male activities-regardless of what they are. Ideology as a powerful mechanism of social control whereby members of the ruling class imposed their worldview: gra(cid:373)s(cid:272)i"s (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of ideology.