Unit 9 Questions

Question 1

Describe the patriarch/property marriage model of marital relations

Answer 1

model of marriage in which women and children are owned by men

Question 2

Describe the breadwinner/homemaker model of marital relations

Answer 2

model of marriage that involves a wage earning spouse supporting a stay at home spouse and children

Question 3

Explain the economic mode of production related to both models

Answer 3

the home and work were one; whether that was farms or plantations or whatever

Question 4

Define sexism and recognize examples of sexism in society

Answer 4

the production of unjust outcomes for people to be biologically female. Average parent thinks that son is smarter than daughter. Art and resumes tributes to men are evaluated more positively than men

Question 4

Identify the relationship between family wage, the ideology of separate spheres and the breadwinner/homemaker model

Answer 4

a man was paid a family wage, the women stayed at home in a separate sphere, and the man was the breadwinner

Question 5

List the problems associated with the breadwinner/homemaker model in modern society

Answer 5

it casted men and women as unequal

Question 6

Distinguish the partnership union from prior marriage models and identify the factors that led to its development

Answer 6

after industrialization, the idea of division of work and home became ideology of separate spheres. Men collaborated to exclude women and blacks from labor unions and their position strengthened to become a family wage. Early feminists fought to end the patriarch model of marriage and the breadwinner emerged.

Question 7

Define the idea worker norm

Answer 7

the idea that an employee should devote themselves to their jobs wholly and without the distraction of family responsibilities

Question 7

Define androcentrism and identify examples

Answer 7

the production of unjust outcomes for ppl to be biologically female. Average parent thinks that son is smarter than daughter. Art and resumes tributes to men are evaluated more positively than men

Question 8

Identify the impact of sexism for men in terms of subordinated and marginalized masculinity

Answer 8

men that are perceived as gay are called fags, pussies - subordinated masculinities - thinking that working class men are abusive and sexier and blacks are aggressive are marginalized

Question 8

Explain the impact of hegemonic masculinity

Answer 8

they are viewed to be the highest people in society and validates that some men are better than others and superior to women

Question 9

Explain and provide an example of the second shift

Answer 9

unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that faces family members once they return home from their paid jobs. Doing house duties on top of ur actual job is a second shift

Question 9

Compare and contrast shared division of labor with specialized division of labor

Answer 9

shared is an arrangement in which both partners do an equal share of paid and unpaid work and specialized is when one partner does more paid work than childcare and housework and the other does reverse

Question 10

Identify how time use diaries are used to study how people use their time

Answer 10

shows how whole populations are spending their time and disparities in time spent on things like self care, leisure and sleep.

Question 11

Describe the ideology of intensive motherhood and its associated social pressures

Answer 11

the idea that children require concentrated maternal investment.. most Americans believe that children are better cared for by their mothers - parenting is still considered female

Question 12

Identify the impact of structural factors that incentivize the breadwinner/homemaker division of labor

Answer 12

domestic work is devalued so there’s an incentive to try to avoid it - men let women have the kitchen and the baby.

Question 13

Explain how sexism and androcentrism result in the feminization of poverty

Answer 13

people who perform masculinity attract higher wages than people who perform femininely

Question 13

Identify the gender (and sexuality and gender identity) wage gap

Answer 13

a women makes .82 for every man’s dollar. Heterosexual e men make more than gay men and cisgender men make more than trans people

Question 14

Explain the impact of the glass ceiling and the glass escalator.

Answer 14

White men have a invisible ride to the top. When they enter female dominated professions, they get promoted more

Question 14

Describe the androcentric pay scale

Answer 14

positive correlation between number of men in an occupation are relative to women and the wages paid to employees

Question 14

Recognize the relative value of care work in society.

Answer 14

People who do care work pays less than other forms of feminized labor, and even more less than more masculine labor

Question 15

Explain the phenomenon of male flight

Answer 15

phenomenon in which men start abandoning an activity when women start adopting it

Question 16

Explain why sociologists describe the state of gender inequality as a stalled revolution

Answer 16

because men have not really embraced feminine qualities and access the feminine spheres of life

Question 16

Describe the freedom/power paradox

Answer 16

situation whereby women have more freedom than men but less power and men have more power than women but less freedom

Question 16

Define and describe the impact of domestic outsourcing

Answer 16

paying non family members to do family related tasks.

Question 16

Explain the global care chain and its impact on both migration and disadvantage

Answer 16

series of nuturing relationships which international work of care is replaced into increasingly disadvantaged paid or unpaid workers.