SOC275H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biological Determinism, Femininity, Marlboro Man
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Interplanetary theory of complete and universal gender difference is also typically the way we explain another universal phenomenon: gender inequality. Gender is not simply a system of classification, by which biological males and biological females are sorted, separated, and socialized into equivalent sex roles. Gender also expresses the near-universal inequality between women and men. When we speak about gender we also speak about hierarchy, power, and inequality not simply differences. The two tasks of any study of gender are to explain both differences and inequality or to be alliterative, difference and dominance. Why are women"s tasks and men"s tasks valued differently. There are dramatic differences among societies regarding the types of gender differences, the levels of gender inequality and the amount of violence (implied or real) that are necessary to maintain both systems of differences and dominations. On the aniomatic questions, two basic schools of thought prevail: biological determinism, differential socialization.
