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| Males and females have unequal access to power, property, and prestige |
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| Biological characteristics distinguishing male or female |
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| Examples of sex characteristics |
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| Chromosomal, hormonal, reproductive systems/organs |
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| Social, cultural, psychological traits linked to males/females through particular social contexts |
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| Preference for sexual partners for one sex over the other |
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| Attitudes and behaviors a society associates with each sex |
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| If biology influenced gender, what would happen? |
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| Less variation in gender among the population |
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| General guidelines for gender role behavior |
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| What is key in cultural norms for gender? |
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| Social construction of reality |
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| Shaping of reality by subjective means |
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| Example of social construction of reality |
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| A salesperson following someone in a store |
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| Founded the idea of "doing" gender |
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| What does it mean to do gender? |
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| Something accomplished in interaction with others |
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| Doing gender ties into what? 2 things |
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| Symbolic interaction and Goffman's dramaturgical approach |
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| How does doing gender tie into goffman's dramaturgical approach? |
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| Front and back stage interactions- acting a certain way towards people depending on the circumstances |
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| With gender in society, what is more likely to be defined and acted on? Similarities or differences? |
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| Once genders are socially constructed as different, what happens? |
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| It's easier for those with more power to oppress/justify inequality the weaker ones |
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| What is a primary division between people? |
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| A certain kind of work is geared towards men/women |
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| Construction work for men, cooking/cleaning for women |
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| Work for men means more prestige |
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| Types of violence against women |
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| Foot binding, genital mutilation, selective infanticide |
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| Places where there is global discrimination against women (3) |
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| Politics, pay, and education |
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| _____ do the globe's second and third shift household and caregiving |
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| Why do economists ignore household caregiving? |
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| Managing household resources, creating and maintaining the future labor force, and auxiliary labor force are all contributions based on what? |
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| Estimated yearly cost of unpaid work |
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| After WWII, what happened to women's jobs? |
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| Men came home and took them |
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| The economy is a profound institution in what sense? |
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| It spills over into other people's lives |
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| Gendered attitudes/behaviors carry over into social institutions |
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| What is a key catalyst for shaping changes in all other institutions? |
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| For a man to get ahead, must have someone at home taking care of second/third shifts |
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| Difference between career and jobs |
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| Jobs are just something you do, but doesn't contribute to success |
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| Great marriage, wonderful kids, excellent career |
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| Ideas that don't really happen |
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| If women combine work and family, what is usually compromised? |
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| Why do highly educated women have greater leverage in the workplace? |
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| They're viewed as having higher commitment to their jobs |
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| How do employers view women married/having kids as? |
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| Less reliable, dedicated, and permanent |
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| What happens when women postpone having children? |
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| Increases lifetime earnings |
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| Married men are considered an asset if they have children |
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| Idea women are less reliable because they're mothers |
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| Idea that some jobs are made for specific genders |
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| Women can only get so far on the corporate ladder |
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| How does gender typing violate the capitalistic system of the US? |
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| Goes against obtaining the best person for the job |
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| Pattern of the gender wage gap |
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| It's global and holds true throughout all occupations |
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| Profound consequences of the gender wage gap |
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| If paid equally, all households would be lifted above the poverty line |
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| Wage gap for a full-time female worker |
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| Women with advanced degrees make _____ less than men |
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| Most women who break the glass ceiling are ______ |
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| Common at work, wasn't recognized until the 1970's |
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| How does work relate to perception? |
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| If we don't see women in power, there will be no role models for children |
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| Link between violence and masculinity |
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| Men are seen as alpha males |
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| Women are the _____ of the population |
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| Sociologists do research on every area of human behavior |
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| Further understand the social taopic |
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| Describe the social topic |
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| Characteristics that describe an object |
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| Logical grouping of attributes |
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| Presumed cause, manipulated by the researcher |
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| Presumed effect, the outcome of the independent variable |
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| Relationship between two things- variables |
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| Something causes something else |
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| Three things needed for causation |
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| Correlation, temporal order, elimination of spurious relationships |
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| A statement of what you expect to find according to predictions from a theory |
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| How has the def. of family changed in the developed world? |
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| Unit of production to unit of consumption |
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| Census definition of the family |
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| Two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption who reside together |
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| People purchasing houses in low-income areas and making them expensive |
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| Grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles |
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| Family in which you grow up |
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| The idea of a contemporary family has... |
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| Existed for a short period of time |
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| Other types of families (3) |
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| Single parent, blended, and LGBT |
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| How does the way family is defined provoke controversy? |
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| It's complicated in how it translates to public policy |
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| Group's approved mating arrangements |
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| Marriage within a specific group |
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| Bilineal, patrilineal, matrilineal |
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| Types of familial authority |
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| Patriarchal, matriarchal, egalitarian |
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| Functionalists idea of family |
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| Contribute to the well being, and survival |
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| Six basic needs of a family |
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| Economic production, socialization of children, care for sick and elderly, recreation, sexual control, reproduction |
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| Families avoid role confusion and forces people to look outside of families for mates |
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| What do functionalists overlook |
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| Nuclear families cause isolation and emotional overload |
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| Conflict perspective of families |
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| Inevitable issues between partners |
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| Problems between partners (5) |
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| Housework, childcare, money, attention, sex |
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| Power in conflict families |
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| Who has it? Who resents not having it? |
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| How do Americans view love and marriage |
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| How long has love and marriage been paired? |
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| Only since the 19th century |
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| Historically, marriage was more ______ |
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| Receiving the same benefits of marriage without actually being married |
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| Men and women tend to have same sex friends, because there's an idea that opposite sex can't be friends |
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| Females tend to be more (3) with same-sex friends |
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| Spontaneous, intimate and open |
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| Opposite sex relationships tend to strain and become sexual |
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| Media idea of gendered friendships |
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| Gendered friendships are doomed |
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| Marital satisfaction decreases when |
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| Marriage where the two people are similar culturally |
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| Adults living with their parents |
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| Women are more likely to become widows than men |
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| People who have responsibilities for their parents and their children |
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| Average age at first marriage |
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| 29 for men, 27-28 for women |
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| Man and woman's unequal access to power, prestige, and property |
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| Traditional, transitional, egalitarian |
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| Three types of roles in the Second Shift |
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| Gender is an ingrained social construct |
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