PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Making Money, Glass Ceiling

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 622
• Professor: Alasdair Goodwill

Document Summary

Three ways to go about it: feminist pathways perspective. Integrated liberation and economic marginalization theory: personal, interpersonal, and community-reinforcement (pic-r) theory, fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)ist pathways research (cid:894)(cid:1005)97(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) So criminalized survivor the (cid:862)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)alized sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)or path(cid:449)a(cid:455)(cid:863) for feminists: this is the only way females are ever involved in crime: denies female heterogeneity in the form of multiple female offender pathways. So there is no comparison group - are males diff, is this female specific. They don"t have the same pathway to wealth - glass ceiling in diff industries marginalizes them. But then the question is - why don"t all women attempt to make money in different ways or try illegal ways. Liberation (i. e. , equal rights) increases economic marginalization of females and stimulates crime. Perhaps women who commit crime have higher testosterone levels. Based on sl and sc theory: balance of costs and rewards of crime (i. e. , rewards outweigh costs/risks)