SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gender Role, Matriarchy
16 Oct 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
Gender
• Important aspects of socialization
• Common experience of all humanity
• Status of opportunity/
Gender roles
• Huge assumptions on both sides of argument
o Expectations regarding proper behavior, attitudes, activities of men and women
o Not static
o Cultural/generational redefining
o Ignoring the preponderance of evidence?
• Not necessarily defined by capabilities
o Men can cook
o Women can fly
o Men can be nurturing
o Women can be aggressive
Gender stratification
• Presumption that men and women have unequal access to power, prestige, property on
basis of sex
o Typically, abuse from men
o Shift in culture from patriarchy to matriarchy
• Sex typing
o Association of some activities of as either male or female
o Greater prestige typically give to “male activities”
o Sex typing fluid, inter-culturally
• Gender role socialization
o Traditional gender-role patterns influential in socialization of children
o Parents teach children what they become
▪ Fit with psychology? Reality?
• Gender differences
