Lecture 7+8 Flashcards
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Connections between education, sex, gender, sexuality
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- Education = gender intensification process
- Experience education differently
- Glorified traits
- Education perpetuates heteronormative ideas
- Structure of education = feminized
- Frats / sororities = gendered/sex/sexuality norms (old school traditional)
2
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Gender Wage Gap in Canada
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- 89 cents
- Converging slowly
- Women got devalued as times changed
3
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Gender Inequality from a global perspective
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- Women constitute70% of the worlds absolute poor
- Women are less likely to be educated
- Women are more likely to be trafficked
- Women are more likely to work in transnational factories
- Take on the roles of the water bearers
- ¼ women are likely to be abused
- 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation
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How / why gender wage gap?
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- Women = less physically present at work
- Statistically women work less hours
- Women continue to be responsible for childcare and house hold duties
- Men are more present at work
- Glass door in Canada
- Women continue to earn less than men who have the same levels of education / experience
- 1/5 leaderships positions are held by women glass ceiling
o 394/500 top corporate have 0 women
5
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Sexual consent
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Has to be clear, active, ongoing, willing and coherent
6
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Social category
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Physical characteristics that we denote social meaning (Race)
7
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Minority group
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Social category that occupies a subordinate rank on social society hierarchy (LGBTQ)
8
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Stereotype
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- Mental exaggeration or measuring rod
- Pseudo +
- Something that seems positive but not.
9
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Discrimination = action
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- Individualistic
o Overt
Own emotions
o Adaptive
Perceived stereotypes of others - Systemic
o Organization, government, corporate
10
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Ethnicity
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- Self defined
- Modifiable and variable that can be changed
11
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What is racism?
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- Ideology that regards racial or ethnic categories as natural, biological or genetic groupings
- Critical race theorists argue that race is a social construct.
12
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Pluralism
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- Refers to a state in which racial and ethnic groups maintain their distinctiveness to an extent
- Equal access to social resources
- Canada is pluralist
13
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Assimilation
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- The process by which formally distinct and separate groups merge together and become one integrated whole.
- America is assimilation
14
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Secondary assimilation
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- When groups come together in public areas and social institutions
15
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Primary assimilation
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- When members of different groups are integrated in personal and intimate associations such as friends, family and spouses.