Sociology 1020 Lecture 5: CHAPTERSEVEN
8 Dec 2015
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In the 20th century, enormous changes occurred in the attitudes, expectations, and behaviours of women and men. Social roles: behaviours that are expected of people occupying particular social positions. Ex: in the 50"s, women"s main roles were those of wives and mothers. Men were expected to support the family (paying jobs, etc) Inequalities between men/women defined as gender inequalities. They favour gender because it refers to the social meanings associated with being a man or woman. Sex inequalities refers to biological characteristics of men/women. Gender is found in social roles, daily interactions and institutions. Gender stereotypes: oversimplified beliefs about how men/women, by virtue of their physical sex, possess different personality traits and, as a result, may behave differently and experience the world in different ways. The fact that gender is largely learned and that its content is continually renewed and altered through social interaction has three implications: gender identities and behaviours are not stable and fixed.
