SOCL 2505 : SociologyNotesExam1
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Family and kinship: most western societies begin with small family units, conjugal family, extended family, family and kinship systems were developed to provide fundamental needs, food production, defense, public family more than private. Consumption: characteristics, self sufficient, farming family, grow food, raise animals, produce clothing and build dwellings. Mode of production: work for wages, buy goods and services, separated home from the workplace. Overview: cultural norms and biological predispositions, shift is rare, influences by power of man, two-sex, two-gender model, family involvement is different. Do things your gender is supposed to do to meet cultural expectations: games and sports- play behavior leads to adult behavior, unconscious influences, children learn to be gendered by watching their parent of the same sex. Gender and male domination: focus is on the structure of society, hierarchies of dominance and power, economic and political system, patriarchy- male dominance over women, sex-gender system, capitalism and socialism.
