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| actions or practices by a dominant group that have harmful impacts on subordinate groups |
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| Functionalist Perspective |
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| view that society is a stable, orderly working machine, with many interrelated parts, each of which perform a function. (Ex: the functions of the economy are producing and distributing goods, like food clothing shelter) and services(such as tourism and dry-cleaning) and government is responsible for coordination and activities of the institutions (health care, education, maintaining law and order, dealing with unmet social needs, international relations and peace. |
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| based on the assumption that groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources. Emphasize the degree to which society is characterized by conflict and discrimination. Certain groups of people are privileged while others are disadvantaged though inequitable use of political, economic, or social power. |
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| Interactionist Perspective |
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| focuses on microlevel analyses of how people act toward one another and how they make sense of their daily lives. Views society as the sum of the interactions of individual groups. |
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| begin their analysis pointing out that mainstream sociological thought and theory is both androcentric and Eurocentric. This means most sociological theory is based on the experiences, ideas, and issues of concern for male of European and western extraction. This causes partial perspectives. Most modern feminist theories go beyond gender and focus mainly on overall equality. |
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| the alteration, modification, or transformation of public policy, culture, or social institutions over time. |
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| is the hierarchical arrangement of large social groups on the basis of their control over basic resources. Today the gap between rich and poor is larger than its been in decades. |
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| the ability of people to achieve their goals despite opposition from others. People who hold positions of power can achieve their goals because they can control other people; and it goes both ways for people who do not hold positions of power. |
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| Can't afford physiological necessities. |
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| exists when people can afford basic necessities, but can't maintain an average standard of living in comparison to that of the other members in their social group |
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| LICO (low-income cut-off) |
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| allows us to see how many people in canada spend significantly more than the average on the necessities of life. |
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| "Poverty narrows and closes life chances...BEing poor not only means economic insecurity, it also wreaks on ones mental and physical health" Food and nutrition, housing |
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| a nation in which the government intervenes in the welfare of citizens through various social policies, programs, standards, and regulations. Most people are accustomed to these benefits that they are often taken for granted. |
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| focus on the gendered character of stratification and poverty. Most of the people living in poverty or women and their children. This trend of women being disproportionately represented among individuals living in poverty has been called the feminization of poverty. Feminist theorists examine what factors propel women into poverty and keep them there, looking, for instance, at women's economic positions following divorce or marriage dissolution. |
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| Strategies for Poverty reduction |
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| Most individual and cultural solutions focus on the importance of work. Individual perspectives suggest that people should work harder. Cultural perspectives suggest enhancing peoples cultural capital to make them better prepared for employment. Structurual perspectives are based on the assumption that society can reduce poverty by creating real jobs and by investing in people through provision of child care, health care, and affordable housing. |
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| hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural, political and economic structures are contorlled by men. |
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| refers to the biological, physiological, hormonal, and chromosonal attributes of females, males and intersex people. |
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| refers to the socially constructed sets of attitudes that dictate what behaviours, thoughts, and emotions are appropriate for each sex. |
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| with either unrecognizably male or female genitalia or both male and female genis. |
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the way that media reflects gender.
3 themes:
1)the underrepresentation of women and other minority groups. When women and other minority groups are depicted in media, they are typically shown in ways that reinforce negative stereotypes.
2) Males continue to be presented as powerful, serious, competent, and independant. While females continue to be represented by the opposite.
3) portrayal of male-female relations along traditional lines and in ways taht perpetuate and normalize violence against women. |
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| the pervasive system of cultural values, attitudes, and practices that support and perpetuate sexualized violence against women. |
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