SOCI 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nonverbal Communication, Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Pregnancy Discrimination Act
9 Jun 2019
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Introduction: sex refers to the biological differences between males and females, gender refers to the social and cultural patterns attached to women and men, social factors make women unequal to men. 9. 1 - women and men are differentiated and ranked. 9. 2 learning and doing gender : social structural conditions, division of labor, macrostructural explanations. 9. 2 - children at home: from birth we are gendered: Learning gender through play: children"s books, children"s toys, video games. Children at play (1 of 2: same-sex peers exert a profound influence on how gender is learned, girls are often involved in cross-gender or neutral toy behavior, african american children are less dichotomous in gender roles than whites. Learning gender through language: he means us, mankind, studs versus bimbos. Doing gender: interpersonal behavior: gender inequalities can be reproduced and resisted in everyday interactions, differences in mixed-sex groups, nonverbal communication. 9. 3 - mass media: the media have tremendous power.
