SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Gender Pay Gap, Matriarchy, Equal Pay For Equal Work
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Gender: social rather than biological characteristics refers to masculinity or femininity, learned. Gender roles: attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex. Nature vs nurtures (2: almost all sociologists take the side of nurture, basic point is that the issue is not with biology or sociology but rather that nature provides biological predispositions which are then overlaid with culture. Sexism: the (cid:271)elief that o(cid:374)e"s se(cid:454) is i(cid:374)he(cid:396)e(cid:374)tl(cid:455) supe(cid:396)io(cid:396) to the other. Patriarchy: form of social organization in which males dominate females. Matriarchy: form of social organization in which females dominate males. Gender stratification: the unequal distribution of resources based on sex differences, caregiver jobs have more women, caregivers earn less wages. Sex typing: every society associates certain activities with one sex or another, can even be different in different cultures/areas, bc pursuits can be considered feminism in one society and masculine in another. Prestige: universally greater prestige is given to male activities regardless of what those activities are.
