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19 Cards in this Set
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Gender Stratification |
Males and females unequal access to property, power and prestige |
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Secondary sex characteristics |
Physical distinctions between male and female |
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Primary sex Characteristics |
Consists of vagina and penis. |
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Gender |
Consists of behaviors and attitudes a group considers proper for its males and females. |
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Social Factors |
Not Biology; are the reasons people do what they do. |
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Patriarchy |
Men dominate society - centers on human reproduction |
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Feminism |
The view that biology is not destiny and that stratification by gender is wrong and should be resisted. |
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Lucy Burns |
Leader of National Womans Party. |
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First Wave of Women Movement |
Reform all the institutions of society and a conservative branch whose concern was to win the vote for women |
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Second Wave of Women Movement |
Protest against gender inequalities |
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Third Wave of Women Movement |
Emphazied on womens pleasures attractioness, and seductiveness, to get ahead at work. |
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Gender Tracking |
degrees tend to follow gender, a pattern that reinforces male-female distinctions |
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Pay Gap |
men being paid more than women. chart pg 317 US women only average 72% of what men make |
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Glass Ceiling |
Term used to refer to the invisible barries hindering the promotion of women and members of other groups traditionally underrepresented into high leadership positions. women lack mentors to show them the ropes. |
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Ageism |
Prejudice and discrimination directed towards people because of their age. |
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Age Cohorts |
People who were born at roughly the same time and who pass through the life course toghet. |
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Disengagement Theory |
Functions on pensions: Pensioins get the elderly to disengage to their positions and hand them over to younger people |
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Activity Theory |
Are intimate activities more satifying then formal ones. Focus on how disengagement is functional or dysfuctional. |
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Continuity Theory |
Now elderly ocntinue ties with their past.
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