SOC101 Chapter 8: soc101 Chapter 8
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Plastic surgery: strategy to achieve a more culturally defined appearance to become more successful. The gendered labour force: gender interacts with social class into 2 senses, provides ground for segregating occupations, women hold more lower-paying positions than men in the workforce. Impressions about commitment, etc. are all greatly influenced from interruptions to one"s career: women in male-dominated industries are more likely to never marry and remain childless. Intersectionality: gender, race, and social class: the simultaneous influence of multiple social relations, including race, gender, ethnicity, and class, all women and are equally and similarly disadvantaged. Gender equality and social change: hillary clinton running for president - is gender equality an attainable vision, gendered ways institutionalized and continue to be reproduced through our social interactions. Summary: whereas the term sex is often used to refer to our physical bodies, either male or female, gender refers to the socially constructed characteristics of masculinity and femininity. Yet both divisions rely on binary, either/or constructions.