Final-soc Flashcards
(39 cards)
Gender boundaries
~Ways to mark the difference between men and women
Tokenism
~a numerical minority
Glass ceiling/Glass escalator
~point where women and minorities are blocked from advancing
~is an unofficial fast track promotion of certain types of staff, usually men with an organization
Inequality regimes
~5 variable components of inequality
Inequality regime #1
Shape and Degree of Inequality
~a steep hierarchy which is gendered and racialized
~the steeper the hierarchy the greater the inequality
~an example could include a bureaucracy
Inequality regime #2
Organizing Processes
~general requirements of work (ex: Reliable, Responsible, 8hr shifts, no children or anyone to care for that will prevent your full ability to perform job) gendered model ~class hierarchies (ex: like social class, jobs are ranked into wage categories) ~wage setting and supervisory practices (ex: Pay difference between men and women, women doing duties without a higher pay) ~informal interactions while "doing work"
Inequality Regime #3
The Visibility of Inequalities
~Degree of awareness of inequalities may be intentional or unintentional (Ex: managers in the workplace would intentionally hide information about the inequalities like their pay)
~Privilege of the privilege is invisibility (Ex: men tend not to see their gender privilege; whites tend not to see their race privilege; ruling class members tend not to see their class privilege)
~Race is usually evident
~Jobs are usually segregated by race and as a result there is tension
Inequality Regime #4
The Legitimacy of Inequalities
~Gender and race discrimination is illegal
~BUT: embedded in legit class processes
~There is invisibility of jobs
~Naturalizing of jobs: women ‘suited’ to childcare
Inequality Regime # 5
Control and Compliance
~Maintained by Direct, Indirect, and Internalized controls
Deviance Neutralization
~Breadwinning women preserve masculinity
Mather
~A gender bending hybridization of mother and father
-Flexible, dynamic word that can capture gender-bending ideas
about parenting.
Symbolic Violence
~A form of power which is hammered directly on the body and without any apparent physical restraint
Genocide
~deliberate and systematic extermination of a group (in this case Native
Americans)
Social Networks
~a pattern, a structural effect
~a network of social interactions and personal relationships (friends, colleagues and other personal contracts)
Relational Imperative
~woman who want to settle down and get married
-need a man in their lives a relationship
Coital Imperative
~once men get started they cannot stop
-once arroused men must have intercourse
Secondary labor market
~lower pay, no job security, dead end, no benefits
Discrimination
~an action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice
Sex segregation
~degree in which men and women are differently concentrated
- Western vs. Muslim dominance of women
- Time, light, space and men’s dominance
~Western men manipulate “Time” (age) and “light” (spotlight on beauty)
-The West is the only place where women’s fashion is an industry
dominated by men.
~Muslim men exert dominance over women by manipulating “space”
(Men control)
-Muslim men don’t allow women in public places
Male sex drive discourse
~Coital imperative: orgasm once men start they can’t stop
~Men have more aggressive drive
Performing Third World Poverty
~Sex workers in Vietnam
-Ex: darken their skin, use “village” regular clothing, learned English
to give pity to costumes
~feminists as economic dependence
~give tours of an “authentic” Vietnam
~groups of Western Men: wealthy business men and budget travelers
Relational imperative
~women who don’t want this Hooking up they prefer long term relationships but not all women want that
Batterers description of violence against women/how is violence gendered
~men construct their violence as a rational response to extreme provocation, a loss of control, and a minor incident blown out of proportion
~unstoppable male aggression
~feminine weakness
~men’s rights
~gender is performative, it makes up the identity it’s supposed to be
~violence represents an effort to reconstruct unstable masculinity identity
~restores hierarchical gendered order