WOMS 010 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Social Class, Sex Segregation, Glass Ceiling

• School: SJSU
• Department: Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WOMS 010
• Professor: Shahin Gerami

Document Summary

Ego-boundaries : separation between me and not me. Gender identity : child"s own sense as male or female. Children identify with the primary caregiver, mostly mother; Boys are likely to get a less concrete idea of what is means to be male; girls get what it means to be female. Unequal access to valued resources: wealth, power, and prestige; Inequality becomes institutionalized with a system of social relationships. Negative attitude toward an entire category of people. Inflexible; does not change even when exposed to new knowledge. Negative generalization about a group that goes beyond existing evidence. One"s own culture is the center and the standard. A person/group is described as having particular characteristics begin to display the very features that were said to exist. Each status has levels of power associated with it: ascribed status: given by society,difficult or impossible to change: sex, age, race, 2nd child, brother, etc, achieved status, individual gains through social action: salesperson, father, etc.