Gender Statification Flashcards
Talcott parsons
Instrumental qualities - boys
Expressive qualities- girl
Intersection theory
Analysis of the interplay of race, class, and gender, often resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage
Structural function approach and gender
Gender serves as means to organize social life
Symbolic interaction approach and gender
Micro level view of society, focusing on face to face interaction in everyday life
Radical feminism
Finds liberal feminism inadequate
Margaret meads research on gender in 3 societies in New Guinea illustrates that
What is feminine to one society may be masculine to another
Throughout the life course, gender shapes
Feelings, thoughts, actions
In observing children at play, Janet Lever concluded that
Boys favor games with clear winners and losers
Which factor accounts for most of the differences in the earnings of working women and men in the us
The kind of work ppl do
Pink collar work refers to what type of jobs
Clerical
Gender stratification
The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women
Which of the following factors affect social class standing in the us
Being born into a certain family, race, gender
Following the analysis of Karl Marx, which class forms the core of the industrial proletariat
The working class
Men and women of low social positions tend to
Engage in different activities
While being in the upper upper class is usually the result of ____, being in the lower upper class is more a matter of _____.
Birth, achievement