SOCIOL 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ascribed Status, Achieved Status, Femininity
25 Sep 2018
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Tests are mc, have to know textbook definitions. Three interrelated parts: social construction of gender categories based on biological sex, sexual division of labour whereby specific tasks are allocated on the basis of sex, unequal value placed on gender-specific traits, social regulation of sexuality. Key terms: patriarchy, male-dominated social structures leading to the oppression of women, doesn"t not equally privilege all men (e. g. some men are above others, Invisibility of privilege to those whom that privilege is conferred. Biologically grounded theories: gender behavior is ultimately a product of human biological nature, perspectives that emerged from this: sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and psychoanalytic theory. Instead, gender and sexuality are products of social structures and culture. If men define situations are real, then they are real in their consequences. Textbook hopes: the difference between women and men are not nearly as great as the difference among women and men, gender difference is the product of gender inequality (not the other way around)
