SY101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Friedrich Engels, Social Environment, Authoritarian Personality
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Gender stratification: unequal access to power, property, and prestige. Patriarchy: male dominance interwoven with culture, custom, ideology and practice. George murdock (1937) fond that every society associates certain activities with one sex or the other sex-typed. Patriarchy can be seen as a theory for the origin of discrimination against women- Infants were in need of their mother for the womb, breast feeding, carrying, etc. so men were the ones taking the more risky/threatening jobs. This gave men more prestige and women were seen as 2nd class citizens as there motherly jobs were given little prestige. Functionalists perspectives considers the different roles in family and society typically played by men and women as distinct and as necessary for well-being. Conflict perspective explains that gender differences are based on power differences between men and women and men"s assumption of power. Frederick engels (1942) argues that men"s assumption of power comes from their private ownership of the means of production.
