SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Social Stratification, Masculinity, Mass Media

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Our ideas about gender are socially constructed. Those ideas can be deconstructed when they no longer work. Where men have traditionally been and are placed in positions of power over women to this day. Gender: personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being male or female. Gender stratification: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Differences in physical abilities, but in athletics, the gap is smaller today. Differences in abilities reflect both biology and socialization. No difference in overall intelligence between males and females. Patriarchy: a form of social organization in which males dominate females. Matriarchy: a form of social organization in which females dominate males (never documented) Sexism: the belief that one sex is superior to another. Stunting talents and limiting ambitions of women. Privileges to men come at a high price. Masculinity is linked to suicide, violence and stress-related diseases.