Sociology 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mcjob, Hypermasculinity, Heterogamy
3 Apr 2014
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Gender: socially constructed based on social expectations for individuals, culturally defined set of social attitudes that can vary from culture to culture and over time within a society, gender norms = rules specifying appropriate behaviour for each gender aka gender scripts, this creates a dichotomy (you have to either be feminine or masculine, etc. , eg: in a list from 1968, boys are to be masculine, aggressive, tough, daring, and dominant, girls are to be feminine, soft, emotional, sweet, and submissive, sex codes = regulate sexual behaviour outside marriages in a given society, 41% of societies are okay with premarital sex, 27% are strongly opposed to it, with premarital sexual standards, abstinence standard forbids it, double standard granted men the right , love standard (new! There are 4 categories in regards to views around premarital sex: egalitarian conservative, egalitarian libertarian, traditional double standard, reverse double standard, gender identity = divided into 2 categories, achieved status = earn/learn it.
