SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Glass Ceiling, Institutionalized Discrimination, Hierarchical Organization
Document Summary
Gender socialization: socialization continues into adulthood, with roles and responsibilities in social institutions differing by age and sex, women often hold less power in micro-level settings, and this translates to less power in macro-level organizations and institutions. Institutionalized discrimination: patterns of social action imbedded in the entire social system: these may influence women and men, providing unrecognized privileges or disadvantages. Glass ceiling: social forces that keep women from reaching the highest levels of corporate and public responsibility. Sticky floor: social forces that keep the vast majority of the world"s women stuck in low-paid jobs. Glass escalator: even if men do not seek to climb in the organizational hierarchy, occupational social forces push them up the job ladder into higher echelons, especially in female-dominated occupations. Feminism: a movement promoting the equality of women and men in all spheres of society. Feminist assumptions: gender is socially constructed, feminism is a political project, complete change to androcentric norms in society.
