Gender Statification Flashcards

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Talcott parsons

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Instrumental qualities - boys

Expressive qualities- girl

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Intersection theory

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Analysis of the interplay of race, class, and gender, often resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage

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Structural function approach and gender

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Gender serves as means to organize social life

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Symbolic interaction approach and gender

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Micro level view of society, focusing on face to face interaction in everyday life

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Radical feminism

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Finds liberal feminism inadequate

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Margaret meads research on gender in 3 societies in New Guinea illustrates that

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What is feminine to one society may be masculine to another

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Throughout the life course, gender shapes

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Feelings, thoughts, actions

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In observing children at play, Janet Lever concluded that

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Boys favor games with clear winners and losers

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Which factor accounts for most of the differences in the earnings of working women and men in the us

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The kind of work ppl do

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Pink collar work refers to what type of jobs

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Clerical

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Gender stratification

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The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women

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Which of the following factors affect social class standing in the us

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Being born into a certain family, race, gender

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Following the analysis of Karl Marx, which class forms the core of the industrial proletariat

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The working class

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Men and women of low social positions tend to

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Engage in different activities

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While being in the upper upper class is usually the result of ____, being in the lower upper class is more a matter of _____.

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Birth, achievement

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Relative poverty

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The lack of resources of some ppl in relation to those who have more

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Absolute poverty

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A lack of resources that is life threatening

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Feminization of poverty

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The trend of women making up and increasing proportion of the poor

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Intragenerational social mobility

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A change in social position occurring during a persons life time

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Inter generational social mobility

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Up war or downward social mobility of children in relation to their parents

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Why do white women not consider themselves a minority?

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Bcuz they are well represented at all levels of the class structure, including the very top

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According to Engels, how does capitalism make male domination even stronger

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1) Capitalism creates more wealth which gives greater power to men as income earners and owners of property.
2) capitalist economy depends on turning people especially women into consumers who seek personal fulfillment through buying and using products
3) society assigns women the task of maintaining the home to free men to work in factories. the double exploitation of capitalism as engels saw it, Lies in paying men low wages for their labor and paying women no wages At all.