Sociology Chapter 10

Gender

The personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male

Gender Stratification

The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women

Marget Mead's Research

Described that your culture defines if something is feminine or masciline cause other cultures might not see it the same way.

Geroge Murdock;s Research

Discovered that mostly everywhere men and women have the same task for example mostly men hunt and go to war

Matriarchy

A form of social organization in which females dominate males

Patriarchy

A form of social organization in which males dominate females

Sexism

The belief that one sex is innately superior to the other

Gender Roles or Sex Roles

Attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex

Minority

Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates

Sexual Harassment

Comments, gestures, or physical contacts of a sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome.

Intersection Theory

Is analysis of the interplay of race, class, and gender, which often results in multiple dimensions of disadvantages

Feminism

Is support of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism

Liberal Feminism

Accept the basic organizations of our society but seek to expand the rights and opportunities of women

Socialist Feminism

Evolved from ideas of Marx and Friedrich
Keep money is small amount of men's hands

Radical Feminism

Patriarchy is so firmly entrenched that even a socialist reveloution would end it

Talcott Parsons

Gender forms a complementary set of roles that links women and men into family units and gives each sex responsibility for caring out important task

Pornography

Sexually or explicit material that causes sexual arousal