SOC 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gender Role, Role Theory, Masculinity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2104
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

*correction for previous lecture* - fm: men were creative, artistic, and intelligent. 11 years and up: children, simplistic binary model and politically conservative (dualisms male-female, roles, system needs change will disrupt society). The capitalist social structure demands something from you and you must supply it. If you don"t supply it, other people will do it for you: involves coercion (i. e. roles not natural, people rebel and society enforces/demands them). Those that are in between are the best adjusted: a schema is a framework for organizing perceptions and interpretation of information (on individual basis). Formal norms are things that guide us in society: gender schema vs. You have the framework that is well-set vs. you don"t have the proper framework: gender appropriate behaviour has a cultural foundation, criticism: androgyny is not the best type (wishy-washy personalities). Pleck"s male sex role strain model (msrs): men were not the problem, but male sex role is contradictory, inconsistent and source of strain.