SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Micro Men, Tomboy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Jana Grekul

Document Summary

Soc 100 lecture 29 gender relations. The interactionist view: study micro level everyday behaviour. In conversations in general, men are more likely to: Change the topic of the conversation, ignore topics chosen by women, minimize the ideas of women, and interrupt women: power imbalance even when women and men are speaking one-on-one; reflects the patriarchy on a micro level. Men in university classes are more likely to interrupt than their female classmates, and do it more often with female professors than with male professors. Sexism and sex discrimination: sexism: ideology that one sex is superior to the other. Generally used to refer to male prejudice and discrimination against women. Film: 20/20 - the secret lives of boys. Boys are more likely to hide their feelings than girls: male babies are more expressive than female babies, but by the age of 5 it is more difficult to read the expressions of boys than girls.