REAL TIME CLASS NOTES
Dr Jack's Loft  ©2004

    Chapter 7 - INEQUALITY BY SEXUAL ORIENTATION 
I. The Social Construction of Sex Roles

A. nature vs nurture

B. doing gender

C. stereotypes 

  

 

II. Inequality by Sex
A. Functionalist position

     1. domination contributes to social stability

 

B. Conflict Theory

     1. subaltern roles masked 

     2. capitalism has oppression "built-in"

C. Interactionalism

     1. men vs women's conversations

D. are women oppressed in U.S. culture

     1. are men oppressed

E. Sexual Harrassment

F. contemporary status of women

 

G. contemporary workforce

     1. no longer full time homemakers

     2. p.172

     3.  poor
     
     4. service

 

III.  Social Consequences of Inequality by Sex
A. The Family

 

B. child raising

 

C. Hochschild's "Second Shift"

 

D. double jeopardy of minority women

 

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