SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Double Burden, Hegemonic Masculinity, Feminist Sociology
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Four main ideas on gender (siltanen and doucet) Knezevic: this reflects the development of north american feminist sociology and assumes high salience of gender / impossibility of gender-neutral social arrangements. Gender is a socially constructed identity that is thought to be appropriate to a biological sex. Essentialism: view that male-female differences are universal and largely reflect biological differences. Gender identities differ across time and societies, and they are not binary and polar opposites. Gender stereotypes: oversimplified beliefs that men and women possess different personality traits resulting in different behavior. Structuralist view of the instrumental personality of men and expressive personality of women. Siltanen and doucet: hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity contribute to gender inequality. Majority of undergraduate and m. a. students in canada are women, a slight majority of ph. Gender based selection of elective subjects in high school enables gender segregation of university programmes (architecture, agriculture, engineering, math, physics, and forestry)
