SOCL 2001 : Test 3
Document Summary
Bonus opportunity (& part of exam 3) killing us softly: gender, race, this film (documentary), hooking up lecture. Documentary: killing us softly 4 (advertising"s image of women) Sexism: the belief that one sex is superior to the other, usually towards females. Patriarchy: social organization in which males dominate females, traced back to biological differences, women have less physical strength (division of labor is different, in history women worked the home, men hunted, means role of the father . Women"s basketball: women"s deodorant is specifically labeled, women are the marked, non-default category. More women are in college than ever before and are earning degrees at higher rates than men: women in their 20s without children out-earn men by as much as. Orientation: homosexuals attracted to people of the same sex, heterosexuals attracted to people of the opposite sex, bisexuals attracted to people of both sexes, asexuals lack interest in both sexes.
