SOCC38H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter The revised Mrs Gender Complementarity at College: Residential College, Economic Security, 7 Women
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The revised mrs: gender complementarity at college (hamilton) Infrastructure and dominant peer culture at midtier school support gender complementarity, a logic consistent with an affluent, as well as white and heterosexual femininity. Universities provide the academic and social infrastructures undergirding these peer cultures: men receive status from athleticism, confidence, and appearance of power while women are expected to be nice, attractive, and appealing to men. Cultural acquisition is at its peak and social environments are heavily influential. Living in dorm ensured residents would be forced to deal with dominant social scene on campus. Producing gender complementarity: diverse gendered logics, mid-tier public universities enroll students from broad range of class backgrounds, who espouse different gendered logics of class reproduction. Suggests most women do not arrive primed for complementarity: highly educated, mostly upper-middle class professional families grew up in homes where a consolidation of privilege approach to economic security was reinforced.
