SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Hegemonic Masculinity, Gender Studies, Generation Gap
15 Dec 2013
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What you see and how you see yourself is framed by social norms, institutions, culturally defined roles, and dominant ideologies or the social construction of gender. As sociologists, they are at least four benchmark ideas regarding ender issues: Gender is a vantage point of critique. Gender is realized in social roles and institutions. Gender is a relation of power and inequality. Gender became an important point of sociological thinking providing a good perspective. Gender as a vantage point allows us to see" ourselves, the social institutions, and social world in ways that attend to both women"s and men"s experiences. Today, many sociology departments have an almost 50/50 balance of women and men. These issues include body image, transgressive sexualities, male sexual responsibility, etc. The generational divide relates to the feminists of the old and new times and the generation gap dividing the women the alienation between the young feminists and their feminist mothers.
