[SA 150] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 25 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Gerardo Otero

Document Summary

Week 8 gender, eploitation, and oppresion: exploitation and oppression as roots of social inequality. Exploitation- economic forms of inequality in which one group dominates another economically, appropriating a surplus value produced by the subordinate group. Social, political, ideological constructions of groups or categories people placed at disadvantage with respect to dominant groups/classes in society. Ascriptive features- gender, age, ancestry: sex and gender. Gender- attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours we associate with masculinity and femininity. Gender identity- ones identification with or sense of belonging to a particular sex- biologically, psychologically and socially. Gender role- widely shared expectations about how males and females are supposed to behave. Sexuality- activities intended to lead to erotic arousal and produces genital response. Sexual behaviour guided by a set of social scripts (make people conform to acceptable sexual behaviour) and linked to gender roles. Sexual scripts- how to behave sexually, who to find attractive, when to be aroused. Sociohistorical changes led to development of gender inequality.