SOCY 122 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Feminine Mystique, Pseudohermaphroditism, Social Stratification

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Summary breakdown of post ww2 consensus of social values and the smooth. The critique of the functionalist theory of social stratification is based on the functioning of the post industrial society"s major institutions. Students felt that their university education in the 1960s was not preparing them for the workforce it did not answer questions regarding things such as war. Popular culture was also influential in the 1960s and became a huge part of peoples lives and the 60s became a time of growing disenchantment, protest and social change. Men and women participated in protests to demand social change. These movements to create freedom, equality and radical change did not allow women to feel like they were receiving equal treatment. Beauvoir argues in her book that man represents positive and neutral and woman represents only negative. An individual is only created through the interference of someone else.