Sociology 1021E Study Guide - Sexology
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Structural functionalist perspective: very traditional with regards to research, why status quo is the way that it is, older explanations were focused on how the gendered division of labour persists because they benefit society in someway , studying how labour is divided among gender, division of work in the home, reproduction for survival. Private realm: male breadwinners/female domestic goddess, men were to work, while women were expected to raise good and healthy children , take care of the home, and spend quality of time with the children, value, not recognizing the work the women do at home, society doesn"t always value the work done at home by women. Symbolic interactionist perspective: construction of gender, we can change the predispositions of gender, masculinity and femininity, gender roles, gender norms, socialization, dualism or a continuum, no specific gender, equality, cannot live in the two binary worlds of male and female".
