SOC102H1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3- Gender Inequalities
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Gender and age: the universal bases of social differentiation. Let"s focus on one of these: gender. The topic of this lecture: why do sex differences become gender inequalities. There is no society that doesn"t recognize gender and age. The gender paradox; most people marry people who are similar in various ways. People tend to marry people of the same: Yet they usually marry someone who is different in sex and (therefore) power: i. e. men tend to marry women and vice versa. This means that our most intimate relations are marked by; unfamiliarity, power or. When we marry somebody of the opposite sex we are choosing to marry someone who is deemed culturally different from them, with a different life experience. Gives more power, respect and authority to men. How does this conjunction of inequality effect: sexual relations. Likely the gender distinction has some biological basis, given that females human or otherwise can bear offspring while males cannot.
