SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heteronormativity, Incest, Victim Blaming

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Different reinforcement in laws (the system is nicer to women more likely to give a warning to females than to arrest and charge); research shows that crying women get off easy. Problem: females are contradicting the gender norms! Not acting feminine, police can now be more severe. Police are more likely to be involved with female assault than in male assault (boys will be boys) 1970s; labour market participation increased females opportunity to commit crime. Opportunity because females were working more frequently; and therefore had a greater opportunity to commit crime (more liberated = more criminal) Hoplifti(cid:374)g, fraud, prostitutio(cid:374) are the (cid:862)fe(cid:373)ale (cid:272)ri(cid:373)es(cid:863) Class and family: traditional/ patriarchal (working class; father works, mother stays home) Daughters are controlled and supervised; not socialized to take risk and go to work; they are socialized to become mothers: egalitarian households (middle class; dual income; equal power) Daughters are encouraged to take risks; socialized to be in more mae dominated fields; more.