SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judith Butler, Laura Mulvey, Scopophilia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

Talcott parsons: gendered roles and expectations exist and thus must serve some social need and fulfill a social role. This supports the dominant ideology of gender inequality, as well as notions of the dominance of heteronormativity. In contemporary society two distinct roles were established view common sense gender roles: Breadwinner: male, life outside the home, working, money maker . Homemaker: female, life inside the home, child rearing, domestic obligations. One way society is divided up is by gender. Traditionally: property, inheritance, expectation, of female monogamy and sexual passivity. Contemporarily: workplace glass ceiling, wage inequality, the old boys network , shaming and double standard politics ie boys will be boys . This gender model has built in motives and desires: gendered roles and expectations. Domesticity, nuclear family, rise of suburbs, harmony, strict gender roles, mom and pop . Betty friedman"s the feminism mystique (1963) examined the singular view of what it meant to be a woman.