SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rape Culture, Erving Goffman, Femininity
10 Aug 2016
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1950s- women"s social roles were those of wives and mothers, in contrast men were providers and the head of the household. 1970s- social roles changed: the belief women should marry and work exclusively in the home was eroding. Men were becoming more involved in household maintenance and childrearing and more women were joining paid labour force. 1990s- social roles changed again: women and men more likely to share domestic responsibilities and both likely to do paid labour. A changed world does not mean and equal world. Intersectional analysis: gender and race, ethnicity, class, sexuality all work in shaping social outcomes: racially marginalized women are exposed to greater dangers in the workforce as a result of their marginalization in low paying insecure jobs. Gender the social meanings associated with being a man or woman. Sex the biological characteristics of men and women. For sociologists, gendered social meanings are constructed from social relations.
