SOAN 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Patrilineality, Male Privilege

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3100
• Professor: Sharada Srnivasan

Document Summary

Sex/gender: gender is a social construction, socially differentiated arrangements of gender that explain the very different ways in which men and women experience the world (kabeer, 55-66) Females: private, unpaid, not productive and low status. Patriarchy: demographic age and cohort, social relations which enable men (as a group) to mobilize a greater range of category through the working of particular relations of division, difference and inequality between this and other categories. A moving category. (cid:498)relational(cid:499) term and structural phenomenon; youth or elderly as a social. Institutionalized system of male dominance of men over women; men"s control over women"s bodies and lives. resources symbols and meanings, authority and recognition, objects and. Who benefits: men, by association (often this is the only way women can) What you do is what the household does. Join utility/welfare maximization is the households" main goal because it has joined forces.