SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Double Burden, Precarious Work, Hegemonic Masculinity
Document Summary
Gender is a vantage point of critique (feminism is activist, not just academic). Gender is a social construction (not an essential, biologically based, unchangeable characteristics of humans). Gender is realized in social roles and institutions (gender is both identity and structural constraint). Any gender ideology is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Knezevic this reflects the development of north american feminist sociology and assumes high salience of gender/ impossibility of gender-neutral social arrangements. Gender is a socially constructed identity that is thought to be appropriate to a biological sex. Essentialism view that male-female differences are universally and largely biological. Gender identities differ across time and societies. Gender stereotypes oversimplified beliefs that men and women possess different personality traits resulting in different behavior. Structuralism view of the instrumental personality of men and the expressive personality of women. Siltanen and doucet hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity contribute to gender inequality.
