Soc301 Final Exam

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History of Women's Labor

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1. Employers first hired women because they could pay them less
2. “Supplemental Wages”
3. Leave labor when married
4. Little reason to advance them

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Culture of Domesticity

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The idea that women are "natural homemakers and caretakers"; prevailing view of middle/upper class white women; women should be at home in charge of domestic life; purity, piety, passive, nurturing, domesticity; work is the greatest source of woman's happiness

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Social Feminism

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Focuses on all people, regardless of sex, having equality

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Racial Feminism

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Focuses on gender issues and race

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Radical Feminism

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Focuses on the representation of women in culture and advocates radical changes in the images of women in culture

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Ecofeminism

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Focuses on working on protection of the land and the environment

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Separatist Feminism

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Focuses on the idea that men and women live in separate worlds

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Masculinity and Femininity

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Not innate- learned; open to possible change as we progress; possession of the qualities traditionally associated with men/women

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Gender Socialization

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The tendency for boys and girls to be socialized differently. Boys are raised to conform to the male gender role, and girls are raised to conform to the female gender or role

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Sexism

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Notion that one sex is inherently superior than the other, combined with discrimination

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Feminism

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Notion that men and women deserve equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities

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Control Myths

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1. Women are weak, passive, dependent; men are strong, assertive, independent
2. Women are intuitive, men are analytical
3. Women are more altruistic and nurturing than men

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Patriarchy

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Male-headed society; males make decisions, head of the household

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Androcentrism

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Thinking from a male perspective

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Consciousness Raising

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The activity of seeking to make people more aware of personal, social, or political issues

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Gender Consciousness

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Being aware of how one's gender effects you; advocating on policies that benefit your gender

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Gender Ideology

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Collection of ideas, norms, etc., to legitimize power, privilege, and prestige; keeps the males in power

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Gender Wage Gap

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The difference between male and female earnings

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Sexual division of labor

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Women had women's work, men had men's work; men would not do the woman's work

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Sex

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Biological dichotomy between males and females, determined by chromosomes

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Gender

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The division between behaviors and attitudes society deems appropriate for males and females

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Stimulus as a symbol

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We react to how things mean to us; they are different in all civilizations; open to change

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Symbol

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An item that stands for a certain meaning that we give it

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Social object

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Objects with arbitrary meanings, constructed by societies

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I

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One of the two aspects of self; this is the creative, intuitive side

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Me

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One of the two aspects of self; this is the socialized aspect, the internalization of the culture and perspectives of others through socialization

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Meaning

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The socially and culturally constructed definition for a word, text, concept, or action

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Role-taking

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The ability to see ourselves from other people, why they behave the way that they do; putting ourselves in "someone else's shoes"

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Generalized Other

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Values, norms, beliefs and perspectives of society in general; any time that an actor tries to imagine what is expected of them on a large scale society

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Significant Other(s)

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Persons who are of sufficient importance in an individual's life to affect the individual's emotions, behavior, and sense of self

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Play Stage

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Taking the role from many people, one person at a time

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Game Stage

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Taking the role from many people at a time, simultaneously and the generalized other

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Social Self

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Any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own

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Self-objectification

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When we choose to evaluate ourselves based on appearance because that's how we believe others adjudicate us; media plays a large role in this

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Mind

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The element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; socially constructed

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Definition of the Situation

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Things defined as real, or real in and among themselves; EX. Education excites me, education makes him sad, education makes her angry

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Looking-Glass Self

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Sense of identity comes from how we think others view us; how we view ourselves vs the media

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Primary Groups

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A small social group whose members share close, personal, enduring relationships; friends, family, teachers, peers

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Traits of Primary Groups

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1. Face to face
2. Small number of people
3. Relative permanent
4. Relative intimate
5. Unspecified nature of association

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Examples of what we thought at one time were human instincts

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Maternal instinct (no, women kill their kids, have to take parenting classes), fight or flight (no, we think about the consequences first)

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Arguments that disprove instincts

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Ability to learn, develop, culture, socialization; simulation --> INTERPRETATION --> response

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Socialization

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The lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs and ideologies

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Culture

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The shared values, ideas, norms, and beliefs regarded in different civilizations