SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nuclear Family, Gender Role, Reinforcement
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While these are historical explanations, most sociologists are interested in contemporary inequality. Men are overrepresented in positions of power and in a lot of different hazardous occupations. Maybe one of the reasons why men have lower life expectancies than women. They also consider ways in which inequalities are decreasing. For the rest of this class, (cid:449)e"ll re(cid:448)ie(cid:449) general sociological findings for both. There are a variety of theories for continued inequality: discrimination: people discriminate against women subtly and overtly because they value men more or feel more comfortable with men: We have a certain idea of what we want our workers to look like. When you think engineer, you often think of a man first. Teachers call on boys, pay more attention to them. As well as sociology classes and anthropology classes. Boys get positive reinforcement for being rational, critical, for speaking out, and girls get positive reinforcement for caring, nurturing, silent, etc.
