PATTERNS AND TRENDS = WEBERIAN

Question 1

what does Weber argue about gender inequalities?

Answer 1

occupational segregation = horizontal and vertical segregation

Question 2

what does horizontal segregation refer to?

Answer 2

• differences in the number of males and females present across occupations
• nurses and primary school, teachers are female and architects and engineers are jobs usually done by men
• regarded as the strongest influence on young people’s choice of career

Question 3

what did the Equal Opportunities Commission 2004 find about segregation?

Answer 3

• explanation for continued horizontal segregation
  1. human capital
  2. individual career choice based on perception and influence
  3. discrimination by employers
  4. barriers within orgnaisations

Question 4

what does vertical segregation refer to?

Answer 4

• men’s domination of highest-ranking jobs
• glass ceiling = social mobility between men and women
• concrete ceiling = difficulty in rising up
• glass elevator = men easily move up the social ladder, especially in female-dominated careers due to hidden advantages

Question 5

what do Barron and Norris argue about?

Answer 5

the dual labour market

Question 6

explain the dual labour market

Answer 6

• primary and secondary labour market
• secondary means low pay, low security and low promotion and more women in this whereas men dominate the primary labour market

Question 7

evaluation of webarian

Answer 7

• only applied to gender inequalities
• doesn’t explain why some social groups end up in different sectors of the labour market and why some have more status than others
• postmodernists argue that there is no longer a consesus