SOC265H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gender Inequality, Carol Tavris, Gender Role
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Gender differences between women and men & the social processes that create them. The social processes that produce the gender inequality: gender differences in individuals: are women & men opposite sexes", conceptualizing gender as individual difference: gender as a (stable) set of characteristics socialization. Gender becomes embedded in body postures, musculature, and tensions in our bodies. Bodies that clearly delineate gender status facilitate the maintenance of the gender hierarchy. Girls were more likely to be reprimanded than the boys when they were not behave as what the teacher has told or yelling. Girls were more likely to obey than boys girls learn you get positive feedback if obeying. 2nd gender as an idea as difference or discourse, and changed overtime: gender as the idea of difference barrie thorne, gender play: elementary school children playing with the idea of the girls vs. the boys . Focus on gender differences created by social processes.
