AUSOC 275 Chapter 5: AUSOC 275 Notes 3

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Sociology
• Course: AUSOC 275
• Professor: Kierstin Hatt

Document Summary

In any one culture over historical time. Over the course of a person"s life. Issues in the workplace and intimate relationships: young women vs postmenopausal women have different experiences. Males report a softening after they become grandfathers they become more nurturing and interested in caregiving than when they become fathers. Within any one culture at any one time. Based on race, class, ethnicity, age, sexuality, education, region of the country, etc. To make gender a role like any other role diminishes its power in structuring our lives. To use the term sex roles make it sound easy to switch roles when in reality, it is not easy. Creates singular normative definitions for masculinity and femininity. Like herding cattle: boys into masculine pen and girls into feminine pen. This assumes that there is no overlap between the two pens. Ignores the fact that gender is plural and relational, it is also situational.