SOC 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gender Equality, Fundamentalism, Structural Adjustment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3306
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Soc 3306: social structures & relations between the sexes. Week 7: monday, november 13 & wednesday, november 15, 2017. Feminist: a differentiated set of institutions, agencies, and discourses, and the product of a particular historical and political conjuncture, male-dominated and women"s experiences with the state vary. Weberian a political institution that has authority to generate and apply collective power: monopolizes the legitimate use of force, organized around a set of institutions (i. e. government, military, police, civil service, courts) It functions to maintain law, order and stability: has sovereignty rights. Lack of legal backing: nature of women"s political participation and representation is unpredictable, because it is not determined by, determined by women"s voting rights, cultural factors (i. e. gender equality, level of economic development. Representation of women: 1945-1997 42 out of the 186 states selected a woman to preside over parliament, sovereign states with parliaments increased seven-fold, women members in parliament worldwide increased only four-fold.