SOCIOL 211G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Patricia Hill Collins, Masculinity, Hegemonic Masculinity
15 Nov 2017
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Gender socially constructed status sex is biological, gender is social (sociological) Gender roles: expectations regarding proper behavior, attitude, and activities of men and women. Feminism: belief in social, economic, and political equality for men and women. Parson and bales to function most effectively, family needs adults who specialize in particular roles/ need to divide labor. According to parson and bales, women"s interest in expressive goals (maintain harmony) frees men for instrumental tasks (protect family) and vice versa. Gender inequality is rooted in female-male power relationship. Patriarchy- system where men are dominant over women. Macro perspective - affects society at large. Emphasizes that men"s work is uniformly valued while women"s work in uniformly devalued see gender differences as a reflection of the subjugation of one group by another group. Not all women experience womanhood the same way. Matrix of domination: cumulative impact of oppression because race, gender, class, religion sexual orientation, disability and age (patricia hill collins)
