SOCI 2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Glass Ceiling, Lucretia Mott, Social Forces
23 Aug 2016
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After reading chapter 11 and participating in class presentations, you should be able to: describe the social construction of gender roles. Gender roles are expectations regarding proper behavior, attitudes, activities of males and females. Media portrayals boys and girls, but mostly girls, base their self-image on what they see portrayed in the media (ie. women"s beauty is portrayed as tall tan and thin; men are muscular and tall) Homophobia fear of and prejudice against homosexuality (same sex intimate relations: understand cross-cultural perspectives on gender roles. Anthropologists have documented highly diverse constructions of gender that do not always conform to the ideals of masculine or feminine: gender stratification requires: Individual socialization into traditional gender roles within family. Promotion and support of traditional roles by other social institutions. Can see the social construction of gender roles in process in societies strained by war and social upheaval.
