SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canada Women'S National Soccer Team

• School: WLU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SY101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

P. 146: the structure of a society that on the basis of sex and gender, opens and closes access to the group"s privileges. Typically, this is based on unequal access to power, presige, and property. P. 155-157: sex is a biological term that deines which reproducive organs one has, gender is a social construct to deine how men and women are expected to act. George murdock surveyed informaion on premodern socieies and found not only that all of them have sex- linked aciviies, but also that all of them give greater presige to male aciviies. P. 154-155: the irst wave" of feminism occurred in the early 1900s when sufragist"s fought for their right to vote, hold poliical oice, etc. They were met with hosility and violence: the second wave" of feminism occurred in the 1960s and coninue today.