SOC366H1 Chapter Notes -Paralegal, Grammatical Gender
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The differences paralegals faced in expectations was due to gender differences in emotional labour. Women in emotional labour in terms of care. Paralegals are to care for their bosses but both men and women have different ways of dong so. Women tend to be overtly engaged with their job by displaying warmth and care while men are polite with neutral behaviour in terms of care being distant. This behaviour is termed by hochchild - surface acting. Surface acting- acting as if one has a feeling through facial display, body movement, or tone of voice. Men do surface acting by presenting a particular face or by turning down the volume while women hochschild calls do deep acting. Deep acting- actually evoking the feeling itself. However hochschild says that many women are not always feeling what they are displaying. However, she was not given a raise since her manager thought that she was uncooperative and her working relation was lacking.
