SOCIOL 2Q06 Lecture Notes - Feticide, Gender Role, Sandwich Generation
12 Mar 2014
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Life course perspectives: adulthood as stages of development, dialectical process of stability, instability, reflexivity. Stages: 5 things that describe you at each of the following stages, early adulthood, middle childhood, older adulthood, thank about the end: what people would say at your funeral. Sex ratio differentials: more males born than females (100 females, 106 males) but women are the stronger sex survival wise, at birth, sex selection practices. Inequality and sex ratio distortions (ratio evens out in time: female feticide (eugenics, reproductive technologies (ethical dilemmas: new source of gender inequalities) Male adulthood: masculinity defined by career, trajectory. Dream : what life will be like: career clock: progress toward career goals, dealing with reality. Female adulthood: less studied, linked to marriage, family, family and careers, whose career takes precedence, adjustments happen on female side (men won"t move away from their career)
