Gender Stratification

• This is the unequal distribution of wealth, power, privilege between men and women

What is gender?

• It refers to the meaning a culture attaches to being a female and male.

• Because society gives men more power and resources than women, gender is an important dimension of social stratification

• Through socialization process, people incorporate gender into their personalities (gender identities) as well as their actions (gender roles).

• The major agents of socialization-family, peer groups, schools, and the mass media-reinforce cultural definitions of what is feminine and masculine

More specifically…• Gender roles- are attitudes and activities

that society links to each sex

• Patriarchy- literally translates to “ rule of the fathers”, is a form of social organization in which males dominate females

• Matriarchy- is a form of social organization in which females dominate males

• Sexism- is the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other; it is the ideological basis of pariarchy

• Feminism- is the advocacy of social equality for men and women, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism

• Minority- any category of people, characterized by physical or cultural difference, that a society sets apart and subordinates

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