SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gini Coefficient, Lorenz Curve, Ethnocentrism
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As technology develops wealth accumulates into fewer hands resulting in greater social inequality. Richest 10% of the global population eams 50% of the worlds wealth. Canada scores as 23rd in the list of countries with the greatest equality. Gender,class and race all function as mechanisms for producing social inequality. Racialized women are one of the most disadvantaged groups. Minority women must confront racism, ethnocentrism, classism, and sexism. Intersectional approach is key to understanding the complex experience of how relations of gender, race and social class, sexual orientation, age work together to position some individuals as privileged and others as disadvantages. Biologically rooted: describes our physical bodies whereby we distinguish between male and female. Categorized based on binaries implying diametrical opposites opposite sex: Socially constructed characteristics associated with girls and boys, men and women. |deal of masculinity that men are supposed to strive to achieve. Requires men to be successful, capable and reliable.
