SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Gender Inequality, Social Stratification, Gender Role
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Chapter 7: gender inequality: economic and political aspects. Social roles: the behaviours that are expected of people occupying particular social positions. Use of the term gender inequalities instead of sex inequalities because gender is social while sexual is biological. Gender stereotypes: oversimplified beliefs about how men and women, by virtue of their physical sex, possesses different personality traits and, as a result, may behave differently and experience and world in different worlds. Imagines of masculinity and femininity often emphasize opposites, but there are in fact degrees of masculinity and femininity. There is a persistence in thinking that masculine and feminine characteristics as polar opposite shows that: the idea of difference is apparently a powerful one and hard to dispel even when it is contradicted by research. In these polarized depictions of feminine traits are viewed as less desirable than masculine ones. Gender stereotypes shape our attitudes about men and women and contribute to determining the ideologies that perpetuate gender inequalities.
