SOSC 1185 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne, Bsc Young Boys

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Dominant ideology: the values, beliefs shared by the majority of the people in a given society. Shows how the majority of the population think about the nature of their society, and therefore it serves the interests of the ruling class. Significance: it is significant because the dominant ideology is created based on how women in our society today are oppressed. It helps to maintain the status quo and to keep/reproduce a particular set of power and status relations such as the binary sex/gender system and it tends to be resistant to change. Sex/gender binary system: classification of sex and gender into 2 distinct opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. It discourages people from crossing/mixing gender roles or indentifying with third forms of gender expression altogether. When the sexes have little to do with one another, see very distinct & rigid gender roles with little flexibility.