WSTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Richard Starkings

• School: UTSC
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WSTA01H3
• Professor: Victoria Tahmasebi

Document Summary

Gender differences are not the product of biological properties. According the social constructionist, it is the product of sococial structures and culture. Working progress throughout your life, re-construction and social construction. 5 levels of social construction: individual (the personal level, identify experiences with gender identity), Interactional (do with every day interaction, gets gender identity when interacting with others; peers, parents, messages from others: good, bad) Institutional level-3rd level, deal with structural basis of our society, ex. family, religion, economy, Workplace- historically been masculine insitutation, shaped and controlled by men; research: gender are paid/treated differently for the same job. Sociocultural: the universal living that you live in, meaning are produced and are affecting your life/very material; ex. Guide you to becoming a beautiful women, the body shape-loss weight, become sick . Global gender order: reflects the reality of our era that is influenced by economic and policies, at this level we can see that political influence and economic shape gender difference;