SOC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-11: Dueling Scar, Premarital Sex, Ascribed Status
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Chapter 9: earning manhood, and the male ego. Every adult female human being is a woman, but not every adult male is a man. Our culture has a long tradition of treating women as automatically worthy of respect. At worst, a woman could lose respect by doing something that the culture agreed was disgraceful. Up until that point, however, she was entitled to respect. Men in many organizations have put up with daily doses of disrespect until and unless they proved themselves worthy of respect. Put simply, a woman is entitled to respect until and unless she does something to lose it. A man is not entitled to respect until and unless he does something to gain it. Women: one source of stress is being judged by things she can scarcely control, such as her appearance. Men: judged by things that are more under their control. The man must repeatedly achieve: obtain, surpass, conquer.
