SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Catharine Mackinnon, Glass Ceiling, Postmodern Architecture
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Issues of sex and gender: gender inequality- males and females unequal access to power, property, and prestige on the basis of sex, sex- biological factor that distinguishes males and females. The dominant position in sociology: represented by symbolic interactionist, visible differences of sex do not come with meanings built into them. Opening the door to biology: alice rossi a feminist sociologist suggests that women are better prepared biologically for mothering, she says that women are more sensitive to stimuli such as an infant. Gender inequality in a global perspective: sociologist classify women as a minority group, this exists even though in numbers women outnumber men but the discrimination of women give them the grouping of a minority group. Sex typing of work: sex typed- every society associates certain activities with one sex or the other, activities considered female in one society can be considered male in other.
