SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Symbolic Interactionism, Producerism, Third-Wave Feminism
1 Sep 2016
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Work is considered to one of our institution in society (1) the institutions and the work labour. Functionalism looks at the economy (cooperation, function) Conflict looks at it as a means of power and dominance. Symbolic interactionism looks at it as a status dynamic. Feminism looks at it as a way to maintain male superiority and promotes. Patriarchy: why are men always at the top? , why are women getting. Women in 2005 earned just 70 cents, compare this to the 72 cents women in the 1990s (2) wage gap explanations: Status dynamics, man walks into room example. Who does this, and who does that. An example of the glass ceiling for women is that their children may interfere with their careers causing them to always hit the glass ceiling (3) three phases for the work labour. Gravitates towards cities, long hours of work, small family homes. Factory industrialism home is the heart of the work .
