SOSC 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Build Automation, Free Trade, Sex Segregation

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1510
• Professor: David Langille

Document Summary

Basically, sex is the biological distinction between men and women; gender is socially constructed in the sense that it refers to how a particular society defines masculine and feminine roles. Thus, one can observe the sex segregation of occupations. But to explain this, it is necessary to look at how jobs are gendered that is, how they take on societal images of appropriate male or female behavior. We tend to prefer the term gender, given that male female differences in employment are almost solely a product of socially created gender roles and ideologies. Taple produ(cid:272)ts = the (cid:373)ost i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t produ(cid:272)ts, that for(cid:373)s the (cid:373)ajor part of a(cid:374) e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455)"s output or a (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455)"s gdp. Canadian economic development has depended on developing a succession of staples products: fish, fur, ti(cid:373)(cid:271)er, (cid:449)heat, (cid:373)i(cid:374)erals, oil . This left us very dependent on foreign investment and foreign markets = vulnerable: many single-industry towns are vulnerable if the market collapses or the resource runs out.