PS287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meg Ryan, George Clooney, Ingroups And Outgroups
Document Summary
Gender-role attitudes and ideologies: three components, examples, applications. Gender ideologies (hochschild, 1989) are attitudes toward men"s and women"s roles: traditional: men at work; women at home. Men have greater power: egalitarian: equal power distribution, transitional: ok for women to work, but also have relatively more home responsibilities. But if she is at home and kids are at home, she is solely responsible. Cultural differences (e. g. , asians traditional based on confucian doctrine) Cognitive: gender-role stereotyping, give them certain properties because of their sex, men = bread winner, dominant, powerful. Behavioural: sex discrimination, a man cannot be a nurse because they are not nurturing. Sexism refers to one"s attitude or feeling toward people based on their sex alone: traditional vs. modern (swim et al. , 1995) Traditional sexism: blatant disregard for women; women less competent. Modern sexism: more subtle devaluing of women: denial of discrimination exists, antagonism towards women"s demands, resentment of preferential treatment.
