ANT207H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Inequality, Gender Role, Julius Evola
Document Summary
The ways in which ppl think about gender roles are influenced by the political, social, and economic climate of the time in directly impact family relationships and social institutions such as schools and the workplace. Norms of gender has shifted through agriculture factory work, contemporary unemployment. Gender role: the seemingly different sets of actions and behaviors associated with girls and boys, men and women, that a society deems (think) appropriate. China remains a patriarchal society, with a socio-economic system structured by class and gender roles. after the result of rapid industrialization of the chinese economy,cultural understandings of gender are related to kinship relations and obligations. In urban area, resistance of law was low. The daughters of these women who gave birth to their own children in the 1childpolicyera were able to work outside the home b/c of fewer child- rearing responsibilities. Daughters born in urban families have power to challenge traditional gender roles.
