SOCI 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Manboy, Cognitive Bias, Hegemonic Masculinity
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Gender is everywhere because- unless we see difference, we cannot justify inequality (p. 430) Individual level: socialization, internalization, identity work, construction of. Institutional domain: organizational practices, legal regs, resource distributions. Understand gender structure as not just constraint, also creating choice and. Social structures not only act on people; people act on social structures (p. 432) Broad ideology justifying much of gender structure. Work devotion schema and family devotion schema (blair-loy) Work devotion: careers in workplace demand and deserve our allegiance. Family devotion: families and children demand and deserve our allegiance. Hegemonic masculinities are things men and boys do. A set of actions that occur over and over again. Normative- it"s seen as the best way to be a man/boy. The most honored way of being a man. A set of ideals only a fraction of man can actually attain to. Ascendancy is achieved through culture, institutions, and persuasion and the compliance of hegemonic femininity and complicit masculinities .
