[SOCY 101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (75 pages long!)
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Sociologists use a constructionist approach to gender identity -- gender = created through interactions with other members in society: gender = social construction, possibility that male and female categories are not only way of classifying individuals. Distinguished by physical, cultural, or social characteristics. Share of desired goods is limited by the dominant group. Collective identity used to help insulate them from unequal treatment. Determined by rules of descent, ascribed status we can"t pick. Women have benefited from the civil rights era: government and dominant religious groups play a large role in determining how gay men and lesbians are treated in society. Lesbians seen as threatening because they are not reliant on men. Gay men seen as inferior because they are perceived to be more feminine. Micro costs and consequences of gender stratification: rigid stereotyping can have psychological and social consequences for individuals. For men: guilt, anxiety, early death, violence.
