SOCY 200 Lecture Notes - Economic System, Noh, Gender Inequality
31 Oct 2013
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Power: ability to control the behavior of others: property: material wealth, prestige: deference, honor, respect. Main bases of power are: military (force, economic (property, political (position) Woman were never more advantaged than men, but the amount of disadvantage varies. Gender inequality emerges from the interrelations among three key features of the material conditions: mode of reproduction: men inseminate, women menstruate, gestate, lactate. Subsistence technology (what type of society it is) And between these material conditions and three key features of social organization: Economic system (division of labor regarding productive work) Political system: males politically dominate: military system: warfare overwhelmingly male. Three principles of gender stratification: within the family, the people who produce material goods have more power and prestige than the people who only consume. Women"s work must be compatible with childbearing and breastfeeding pease@umd. edu 10/31/2013: people who control the distribution of economic of surplus, beyond the level of family, have more power and prestige.
