SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Stratification, Kibbutz, Matriarchy

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

Document Summary

Gender is more than difference in how women and men are expected to behave. Men have traditionally be and are places in positions of power over women. Gender: personal traits and social positons that members of a society attach to being male or female. Gender stratification: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Cannot think of social differences in biological terms. Differences in physical abilities, but in athletics the gap is smaller today. Differences in abilities reflect both biology and socialization. No differences in overall intelligence between males and females. The israeli kibbutz: gender is considered irrelevant. Margaret mead"s resea(cid:396)(cid:272)h: (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e is the key to ge(cid:374)de(cid:396) diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es. Geo(cid:396)ge mu(cid:396)do(cid:272)k"s resea(cid:396)(cid:272)h: i(cid:374) p(cid:396)e-industrial societies, hunting and warfare belong to men and domestic duties belong to women. Gender is too variable across cultures to be a simple expression of biology. Patriarchy: a form of social organization in which males dominate females.