SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hopscotch, Bsc Young Boys, Kibbutz

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Gender and inequality: gender: personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male, gender strati cation: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Gender and socialization: gender roles: attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex. Gender and schooling: young women are expected to excel in languages and social studies while young men are to excel in math and science. Gender and the mass media: racial and ethnic minorities were absent from television until early 1970"s, men generally play the brilliant detectives and skilled surgeons, men are photographed to appear taller than women, implying male superiority. Gender, occupations, and income: during the past few decades we have seen blurring of the distinctions between men"s and women"s jobs, women are moving into business, nance, engineering, male nurses now make up 7% of the total.