SOC366H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Masculinity, Human Capital, Institutionalized Discrimination
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Gender is built into the structure of lot of work. What is discrimination analytically. takes many form, wage gap. Women not getting as much promotion as men. Human right commission: treating people differently, negatively or adversely. Noticing is the first stage, notice the person different than me, the label can be problematic, different does not necessarily means discrimination. Activating: label activates you associate with the label. Lots of variance comes in, can be conceptually specific. Unequal + harmful based on characteristic for individual or a group of individual. Direct: standards or policies that act on the face. Representation: unequal salary for women and men doing the same job. Subtle-direct or indirect, depends on how it affects. Major distinction between overt and cover is that covert is intentional. Example: manager hiring from his network and he knows his network is most men, so he is keeping out of the hiring. What can we do: analytical approach: theoretical problem.
