Key definitions Flashcards
1
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What is culture?
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- The way of life in a particular society.
- Any traditions, beliefs, norms and values that are specific to a place and people (or a time).
2
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What is the concept of value?
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- Ideas and beliefs people have about what is good and worthwhile.
- Things like privacy and right to protest are all values in our society.
3
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What is the concept of norms?
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- Specific ideas of normal behaviour that guide us.
- These can be explicit (written rules) or implicit (unwritten rules).
4
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What is inner containment?
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- Personal + social control over behaviour
- For example, self control, ego-strength
- Women are taught more shame surrounding themselves + their sexuality
5
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What is outer containment?
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- Behaviour of individuals are kept to the norms, rues, regulations, laws etc by significant groups like society, family, community.
- Parents & boyfriends are more overprotective over females
- Women tend not to be allowed in certain places at certain times.
6
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What is the glass ceiling?
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An invisible barrier that stopped women and other minorities like people of colour, disabilities, etc from reaching the top business level and from going as far as their white or male counterparts.
7
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What is control?
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How we can govern or influence someone’s behaviour and get them to do what we want them to do.
8
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What is the triple shift / triple burden?
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- Now that women have gone into work and have careers alongside men but they are also expected to come home to do two more unpaid jobs: house work & childcare.
- This expectation is there simply because of their gender.
9
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What is the feminine mystique?
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- It was first described by Friedan in the early 1960s, it is the impossible myth sold to women about what womanhood is and should be.
- It is this idea that women are defined by their relationships to others: as wives and mothers, and should not explore themselves as full people, but devote themselves to others, and stay locked out of development.
