SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gender Inequality, Stoicism
20 Jan 2017
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Sex and gender can be powerful predictors of behaviour. Sex and gender can influence your life chances. Belonging to one gender or another can predict: education, occupation, income, health, voting, pattern, whether you do the housework, whether you commit crime, etc. Gender refers to differences in behaviour resulting from socialization: males: masculine behaviour, females: feminine behaviour. Women feminine characteristics: emotional (expressive and receptive) nurturing, caring, empathic, weak/ fragile , passive, dependent, indirect, concerned with appearance and relationships, inferior. Men masculine characteristics: stoic, strong, muscular, rational, brave, authoritative, aggressive,, independent, direct, sex obsessed, dominant, superior. Family: colour, clothes, toys, nursey decorations, girls: domestic chores, boys: maintenance chores, girls=more fragile =gentler treatment, boys=rougher treatment, family roles and dynamics. Media: teacher-student interactions; sports, praise girls and boys for feminine and. Masculine behaviours; gender dominant courses: blatant and subtle messages about feminine and masculine traits and behaviours.
