SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Willi Hennig, Glass Ceiling, White Privilege
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Hold over 85% of all legislative positions and governorships in the us and 80% globally. White privilege and male privilege - men are trained over time to not notice their privilege. Men need to know less about the world of women bc it"s a male dominated world. Current generation of men didn"t create the social system that exists, so they can cla about any conspiracy to oppress women. Men take for granted the system that gives them status and so are unaware (assum. When they look at their lives, they note the burdens and responsibilities of their gen advantages. Successful men don"t notice talents of subordinates . View small losses towards them as significant changes. Hardly notice what maintains (160) masculinity as vulnerability: harder they fall. Men and women in agrarian societies (1800s) gave way to a market economy dominated b. They abandoned their families bc they couldn"t provide. Some men were vulnerable bc of race, ethnicity or class.
