SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Visible Minority, Rela, Physical Disability
31 Oct 2013
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Catherine kaukinen canadian victimization data on physical and emotional abuse experienced by women in their intimate relats. Looked to see how abuse is related to gender/status compatibility meaning comparing the man and woman in terms of employment status, income and education (ses: 3 groups: Status parity: egalitarian couples relatively equal in terms of ses. Status incompatibility: traditional man has greater ses. Status incompatibility: status-reversal woman has greater ses. Competing theoretical perspectives around the cause of violence on women/ why women don"t leave: dependency perspectives. Risk of violence on women is greater when woman is in a dependent position in marriage. Levels of violence are lower-risk in group 1 than they are in group 2: stress frustration theories. Economic disadvantage elevates conflict and violence in relas. Cohabitation instead of marriage: feminist perspective on gender-based power. Cause of violence in rooted in gender, in our defs of masc and femininity. Gender defs help explain why men resort to violence.
