SOCL 2505 Chapter : Sociology Chpt 4
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September 10, 2013: masculinity- the set of personal characteristics that society defines as being typical of men. The contributions of gender studies: review of approaches to studying gender, biosocial- genetic and hormonal, socialization- conscious learning and interpretation, psychoanalytical- unconscious internalization\patriarchal- dominance of the, Interactionist- created and recreated: two contributions study of gender has made to understand the. Families and the economy: growing importance of education, economic resturcting, technological changes, jobs moving overseas. Families and the economy: trends in the poverty, poverty line- a federally defined income limit defined as the cost of an economy diet fir a family, multiplied by three, two definitions of poverty, associate poverty & relative poverty. Social class- an ordering of all persons in a society according to their degrees of economic resources, prestige, and privilege. The family tied to class location of the father. Now, more approiate to focus on the family unit.
