Final Gender and the Economy

Question 1

one of the major solo institutions in our society
Society’s system of managing and developing its human and material resources to hopefully make it better and make more comfortable

Answer 1

Economy

Question 2

Define the U.S. economy

Answer 2

industrialized capitalist

Question 3

What does it mean to be hierarchical?

Answer 3

heads are heads of companies, and some work for companies

there are people who make a lot more money than people and have a lot more power than other people

Question 4

What does it mean that meritocracy as the ideology?

Answer 4

those who are at the top earned it

Question 5

What are the cases most situations are in when it comes to people in meritocracy?

Answer 5

people are at the top because their parents were nearly there

Question 6

T/F: Race and sex is the reality when it comes to an ascribed status

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What was the big labor force move in the 19th century?

Answer 7

Agriculture to industrialization

Question 8

Who went to work in industrialization?

Answer 8

Mostly men, some working class women. Some were forced off their land to work

Question 9

What is Virtuous Domesticity in middle classes?

Answer 9

middle class women tended to not go to work. their husbands owned the factories, so they stayed home s
women saw their role as creating safe haven of moral safety for husbands to go out in the world and come home and be nurtured and have needs met
tried to emphasize their roles in the family

Question 10

Describe the Working class women found

Answer 10

most other women were at work
found that the jobs that they worked in the factories were unsafe and horrible pay because at the time it was legal to pay women less

Question 11

T/F: stereotypes held women in the working force

Answer 11

True