Sociology 2266A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Premenstrual Syndrome, Ovule, Downtown Eastside
1 Feb 2018
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Sexism - attributing to women socially undesirable characteristic that are assumed to be intrinsic characteristics of that sex. Conservative approach - an approach that understands di erence between men and women as biologically based sex di erences. Women are viewed as naturally inferior or unequal to men. Thomas - human behaviour was bases on four wishes for: adventure, security, response, recognition. Thomas asserted that men"s and women"s instincts di ered both in quantity and quality. Since women had more varieties of love in their nervous systems, their desire for response was greater than men"s. They described the women in their study as a sorry lot. burdened with feeblemindedness, psychopathic personality, and marked emotional instability, a large proportion of them found it di cult to survive by legitimate means . Pollak suggested that women"s crime was vastly undercounted. He put forward that female criminality was more likely to be hidden and undetected.
