SOCY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnic Cleansing, Census In The United Kingdom, Antisemitism
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Study guide, exam 3, socy 1001 fall semester 2015. In what ways did betty friedan impact the feminist movement: betty friedan wrote the feminine mystique which argues that the problem was not with women as individuals, but with the positions they occupied. This was not a private trouble but a public issue, they lacked access to economic, social, and cultural resources. Why do sociologists find the concept of gender useful: sex: biological differences between makes and females. Gender: the social and cultural significance that we attach to the biological difference of sex. Sociologists find this term useful because it is a continuum that it is developed through socialization, in which we internalize the cognitive, normative, and material culture deemed appropriate or natural in our social worlds. Examples: primary sex characteristics are anatomical traits essential to reproduction like the sex organs.
