SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Performativity, Vise, Pink-Collar Worker
Document Summary
Judith butler argues that all gender is created and sustained through performances. Gender is made by what you do and how you interact with others. There are social costs to displaying gender in ways that our society deems inappropriate. The idea if a male acts to feminine it is going against gender roles or vise versa. Show a little emotion and be aggressive. These are overview of rules of masculinity. If you waver from these rules it is called social cost. Our society has very restrictive ideas of what it means to be a man. Gender and gender relations are also reinforced through social institutions. Male sports being dominated by media coverage. Sports are a social institution that reinforce social norms and values related to gender. Over the last 30 years, women"s labour force participation has increased dramatically. The rise in women"s labour force participation is due to: Changing norms about the role of women in society.
