SOCIOL 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Binary Opposition, Sex Organ, Cisgender

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Dr. Samuel

Document Summary

Intersectionality: gender, class and race all function as mechanisms for producing social inequality, racialized women are one of the most disadvantaged groups, minority women must confront racism, ethnocentrism, classism and sexism. Intersectional approach key to understanding the complex experiences of how relations of gender, race and social class, sexual orientation, age work together to position some individuals as privileged and others as disadvantages. Masculinity and femininity: culturally dominant forms of masculinity and femininity, hegemonic masculinity (connell, 1987) Ideal of masculinity that men are supposed to strive to achieve: requires men to be successful, capable, and reliable, associated with the traits of aggressiveness, control, strength, drive, It is understood as the ideal that women should try to achieve. Gender and earnings: earnings ratio: calculated by dividing women"s average or median earnings by men"s. If this is the case, what is the extent of the discrimination: for every . 00 earned by a male worker, a female worker earns 74 cents. -based on.