Unit 2 Sociology Flashcards
Kelly
Education
G
Science is packaged as a boy’s subject
Colley
Education
G
Subject choices are negatively impacted by: learning environment, subject preferences and perceptions of gender roles
Skelton
Education
G
‘Hidden curriculum’ influences subject choices
Mitsos and Browne
Education
G
Teachers are more lenient towards males
Hard on girls who are sen as breaking both the school rules and gender norms- ‘doubly deviant’
Adkins
Workplace/ income
G
Horizontal/ vertical segregation
Limited job options for women- used as sexual attraction
Men- mechanics
Women- caterers
Sticky floors
Workplace/ income
G
Women are stuck in lower job roles
Leaky pipeline
Workplace/ income
G
Women are discouraged from male dominated roles
Glass ceiling
Workplace/ income
G
Women are able to see the higher positions within the workplace but cannot access them
Mac an Ghail
Workplace/ income
G
The crisis of masculinity
Deindustrialisation and feminisation of the labour market has led to increased unemployment for men
Fawcett society
Workplace/ income
G
Women make up 20% of directors on FTSE 100 brands and 11% of UK bank CEOs are women
UK health and safety data
Workplace/ income
G
Suggests that more than 95% of the 200 people killed in the workplace every year are men
Stereotyping
Crime
G
Basing your beliefs of someone on their gender
Labelling
Crime
G
When someone is associated with a certain stereotype based on their label which influences how they are treated
Dark figure of crime
Crime
G
Unreported rape and sexual assault
Harding
Crime
G
Street casino- young black Afro-Caribbean boys are more likely to be dragged into gangs
British crime survey
Crime
G
13% of girls aged 16-19 had experienced domestic abuse and only 7/100 rape cases reported to the police resulted in a conviction
Messerschmidt
Crime
G
The gang acts as a location for ‘doing masculinity’ which has been ‘accomplished’ and proven
Home office
Crime
G
Women are more likely than men to be victims of domestic violence
1 in 4 women experience domestic violence at some point in their lifetimes
6-10% of women experience it in a given year
Double standard of ageing
Media
G
Women are encouraged to prevent ageing at all costs but older men are accepted and represented in the media
Ferguson
Media
G
The cult of femininity is passed on through lads magazines where women are highly sexualised
Billington
Media
G
Women are represented as subordinate and men are represented as dominant in the media
Hughes
Media
G
Digital communication can help to reproduce patriarchy through sex exploitation such as bride trafficking and sex tourism. He calls this the ‘Dark Net’
Demos study
Media
G
Found extensive use of misogynistic language online and studied the amount of times this language was used on Twitter
Life chances
Education
G
A theory of the opportunities each individual has to improve his or her quality of life
Cultural capital
Education
C
MC have more cultural capital than other classes
Meritocracy
Education
C
Social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability
Becker
Education
C
Argues that MC pupils are labelled as the ‘ideal pupil’, therefore teachers label them more positively leading to their educational achievement
DFE (2012)
Education
C
Only 35% of students who receive FSM achieved 5 A*-C grades at GCSE compared to 62% of non-FSM students