SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Stratification, Kibbutz, Matriarchy

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

Document Summary

Gender is more than differences in how women and men are expected to behave. Gender is also an important dimension of social stratification. 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. We must be careful not to think of social differences in biological terms. Differences in physical abilities, but in athletics the gap is smaller today. Differences in abilities reflect both biology and socialization. Also, women have a greater life span. No difference in overall intelligence between males and females. Women and men"s lifespans are now about equal. All we care about in our society is what men do with their career, women"s lives are more diverse. Nobody can say that males are more intelligent than females.