SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Labor Market Segmentation, Gender Identity, Gender Role
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Gender: culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in meanings, beliefs and practices. Social and cultural processes are most important in defining what females and males are, what they should do what sorts of relations should exist between them. Microlevel analysis of gender focuses on how individuals learn gender roles and acquire gender identity. Gender role: attitudes, behaviour and activities that are socially defined as appropriate for each sex and learned through socializaition. Gender identity: person"s perception of self as female/male. Macrolevel analysis of gender examines structural features, external to individual that perpetuate gender inequality. Gendered institutions: gender is one of the major ways by which social life is organized in sectors of society. Every society uses gender to assign certain tasks. Gender belief system: ideas of masculine and feminine attributes that are held to be valid. This is legitimated by religion, science, law and other societal values; it may change over time as gender roles change.
