SOSC 1185 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gender Binary, Dominant Ideology, Gender Role

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1185
• Professor: Lee Wiggins

Document Summary

Part 1: key course vocabulary worth 40 marks, do two (2) options each worth 20 marks. Refer to course material, readings, lectures, and/ documentaries, Test bank options for part 1: 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. & inequality is much lower; strong bonds of solidarity between men & women; personal autonomy, co-operation & co-dependence are highly valued: women tend to have less status & power, especially formal power, in highly stratified societies.