SOCL 1260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Preschool, Traditional Education, Sexual Orientation

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCL 1260
• Professor: Zippel Katrina

Document Summary

Schools are like factories that reproduce gender inequality and gendered individuals. Rural women-germany, least likely get chances of education. What affects getting an education: class, geographic location, neighborhoods, race, religion, sexual orientation, monitoring and disciplinary measures, sex/gender, body politics. Traditional education for manhood: historically: women were seen as weak to be educated (biological argument) Men and women must be taught differently: fears of emasculating the curriculum. Watering down the subjects: fear of emasculating boys. Also fear of subjecting girls to boys ways. Nursery school and kindergarten: sex-segregated areas of play, girls an boys learn appropriate behaviors and experiences. Male students are called on more often. Assumed: girls like to read and hate math and science, bar(cid:271)ie"s first (cid:449)ords (cid:862)(cid:373)ath is hard(cid:863) (cid:862)hidde(cid:374) (cid:272)urri(cid:272)ulu(cid:373)(cid:863: studies of childrens (text) books female characters underrepresented female characters usually in secondary roles. Females- marriage; stepmothers and sisters; passive emotional, domestic life. Males-active, emotionless: similarities: gender on tv. Commercials link gender roles to gendered adult roles.