Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Glass Ceiling, Symbolic Interactionism, Interrupt
3 Apr 2016
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Chapter 7: gender inequality: inequality and polii cal aspects. Social roles are the behaviours that are expected of people occupying paricular social problems. Gender inequaliies are inequaliies between men and women. The word gender is used over sex because it refers to the social meanings associated with being a man or woman, where sex refers to the biological characterisics of men and women. Gender stereotypes are oversimpliied beliefs about how men and women, by virtue of their physical sex, possess diferent personality traits and, as a result, may behave diferently and experience the world in diferent ways. Gender-related ideniies and behaviours are largely socially constructed. The fact that gender is largely learned and that its content is coninually renewed and altered through social interacion has three implicaions: 1) gender ideniies and behaviours are not ixed. Gender inequaliies are hierarchical asymmetries between men and women with respect to the distribuion of power, material well-being, and presige.
