Midterm

Question 1

Emotion work/labour

Answer 1

Commodification of private emotion sold for a profit in a capitalist economy.

In a work context, an individual as to suppress feelings within themselves by changing their thoughts, gestures and etc. by acting.

Question 2

Acting (emotion work) (Hoschchild)

Answer 2

• Surface acting

- Deep acting

Question 3

Surface acting (Hoschchild)

Answer 3

Not to fully embodied in your emotional labour. Pint a smile on your face - let us know that you are acting.

Question 4

Deep acting (Hoschchild)

Answer 4

Don’t see that you are on ‘duty’. Women tend to naturally do that because it is a scripted norms.

High secondary gains.

Question 5

Men emotional labour

Answer 5

Have to express masculinity.

• Instrumental
• Emotionally distant from your life, be quick
  e. g.: lawyer and finance

Question 6

4 explanations why women do more emotion work than women (Hoschchild)

Answer 6

1. Lack of material resources
2. Emotion work/labour as socialization
3. Women have a weaker status shield because of their subordinate status
4. Gendered forms of emotional labour commercialized how women react to subordination is by making defensive use of what is deemed feminine attributes

Question 7

Intersectionality

Answer 7

The intersection of different stratification systems (race, class, gender, etc.)

• Relationships between social constructs (not static) bound with time period and culture
• Not additive

Question 8

Workplace

Answer 8

A location where someone works for his or her employer, a place of employment. Such a place can range from a home office to a large office building or factory.
-Criticized by feminists (unpaid work)

Question 9

Labour of love

Answer 9

Interpersonal support energy in expecting the relationship; invisible (domestic labour; emotional labour)
You do it ‘for love’, but if you don’t do it you’re marginalized

It reproduces inequal relationships between gender

Question 10

2 types of societies (Benoit)

Answer 10

1. Horizontally organized: gender equal society in the precapitalist area
2. Hierarchical/vertical: social stratification based on wealth and prestige