POLS 280 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Campaign Finance, Elite Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

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Pols 280 week 7 culture and social structures. Culture: values, beliefs, behaviours, symbols of a group of people, accepted without question, passed on through imitation and communication. Social structure: organized patterns of social relationships and institutions, the structures that make society. Supply factors: ambition/will: motivational forces, resources: suitability and resources for candidates. Resource model of political participation: six factors supporting participation, money, time, civic skills, education, occupational background, economic power. See themselves as contenders/believe they can win. Believe they can combine family and career. This is related to culture : proper place: women"s proper place is in the domestic sphere. The root of the public private dichotomy makes: It difficult for individuals to (cid:498)go against the grain(cid:499) Cross national differences explained by: a culture"s religious composition. Resources: women have/perceive themselves to have less of the six factors. Normalised ideologies about women and their place in social structure: innate traits: women do not possess the rights traits for political life.