SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Binary, Dominant Ideology, Gender Role
14 Nov 2018
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Definition: the values, beliefs shared by the majority of the people in a given society. Shows how the majority of the population think about the nature of their society, and therefore it serves the interests of the ruling class. Significance: it is significant because the dominant ideology is created based on how women in our society today are oppressed. It helps to maintain the status quo and to keep/reproduce a particular set of power and status relations such as the binary sex/gender system and it tends to be resistant to change. Definition: classification of sex and gender into 2 distinct opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. It discourages people from crossing/mixing gender roles or identifying with third forms of gender expression altogether. Male dominance has been worsened under colonization, capitalism & industrialization where power is regulated & formalized, and becomes what marilyn.
