AUSOC 275 Chapter 5: AUSOC 275 Notes 4

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Sociology
• Course: AUSOC 275
• Professor: Kierstin Hatt

Document Summary

Institutions create differences that we assume are properties of individuals. At home we share a washroom and do not have urinals specific for the man patterning of jobs, wages, and hierarchies, power and subordination. Gender divisions: the ways in which ordinary organizational practices produce the. Gender images: symbols and images that explain, express, reinforce, and sometimes. Organizational gender neutrality: where the theory and practice of gender neutrality oppose gender divisions covers up and obscures the underlying gender structure. Allows practices that perpetuate gender structure to continue even as efforts to reduce gender inequality are also underway. Primary sex differences vs secondary sex differences. Differences present at birth (genitalia) vs those that develop at puberty. We use primary as the decision for assigning sex and therefore gender roles. Intersexuality pushes us to reconsider the genitals as the primary defining feature of biological sex which constitute a way of life shared by a group of people.