SOCA03Y3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.6: Multiple Comparisons Problem, Occupational Segregation, Conflict Theories
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The wage gap can be explained by such factors as occupational segregation and men being employed in different employment sectors . The undervaluing of women"s work in the same position as men. The restructuring of women"s work by privation and outsourcing and the lack of affordable quality child care. Exchanged theory: the assertion that power in a relationship is influenced by resources that a member brings to the relationship. Intersectionality: the simultaneous inference of manipulative social relations, including race, gender, ethnicity and class. Functionalism: men fulfill an instrumental role: through their paid labour in the public sphere , they make decisions for the family unit. Conflict theory: marx"s concept of class to refer to groups identified by sex or gender. Conflict theories tend to focus on their attention on how gender affect one"s control of and access to scarce resources. Symbolic interactionist: they argue that gender is created through social interaction, mainly through the mechanism of role taking.
