01:920:216 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heterosexism, Vertica, Glass Ceiling
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Sex seen as dichotomous (male/female) -> gender dichotomous (masculine/feminine) Gender- social construction, learned, unquestioned, interaction btw biological characteristics and socio-cultural-environment, vary among diff cultures. Women continually sidelined/disadvantaged -> soc of women try to fill in the lack in scholarship. Intersection of personal experiences and larger history, ability to see relationship btw own life and history. Social/public issues of social structure: transcend indiv experiences. 1950s, american society, reveal myth of feminine domesticity (which was glorified at time period), women dissatisfaction thought was individual problem. Feminism stigmatized: ppl fear sexual orientation, against status quo, associated w/ radicals. >feminism: emphasizes social basis of women"s experiences, different types of feminism exist. >agency: individual choices, freedom, action, creativity, resistance, possibility, transformation. >structure: society/larger norms, determinism (rules, rigidity), order, conformity, power, constraint. >continuum: analytic device used to study social phenomena that has polar ends. >margaret mead article- sex & temperament in 3 primitive societies. Debunk idea certain gender temperaments common to all humans.
