SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Glass Ceiling, Symbolic Interactionism, Masculinity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Soc 103 ch 8 gender and sexualities. Gender: socially constructed characteristics associated with girls and boys, women and men (masculinity and femininity) Gender relations: act as organizing principles in society they shape and order interactions between women and men. *hegemonic masculinity: the concept of what we consider as normal and acceptable. The normative ideal of masculinity that men are supposed to achieve. *emphasized femininity: the normative ideal of femininity, or what we believe to be normal and acceptable feminine behavior. Symbolic interactionism argues that gender is created through social interaction, mainly through the mechanism of role-taking. The enormous growth in women"s labour force participation is a result of and has resulted in inflationary pressures that require higher family incomes, the growth of the service sector and changing gender expectations. Glass ceiling: the notion that women can see the top of the corporate ladder but cannot reach it because a glass ceiling stops their progress.