Sociology 1020 Study Guide - Technological Unemployment, Communication Studies, Culture Industry
4 Nov 2011
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Supported by a rigid set of gender norms, including behaviors that are appropriate for men and women. Men are authority figures supported by an ideology of decision making and control resources and women are oppressed by this gender inequality. effect institutionally. How gendered order is transmitted to and internalized by individual members of society. Self as it develops in accordance with an individuals gender and social definitions of that gender. Gender socialization process of acquiring a gendered identity, and begins at birth. Born male or female, but become masculine or feminine through socialization. Sex is a biological physiological differences via hormones and reproductive organs and body size ascribed characteristic. Gender roles for men and women are socially created and learned, and people are not born with them this is an achieved characteristic: structural functionalism and gender. Along biological lines male and females are suited for different types of work. Thus role differentiation occurs to justify the gendered division of labour.
