Transcript Ch.13Gender2

Gender
Sex vs Gender
• Do you think differences between masculine and
feminine behavior are culturally or biologically
defined?
• Why do many people resist the idea that it is
cultural?
• Analyze how your own gender role has been
shaped by your family, peers, school, and the
mass media.
• Which seems to have had the most impact on
you?
Working moms: The great balancing
act.
• Should mothers with children stay home?
• Should fathers with children stay home?
• Businesses claim that helping working women
would “hurt the bottom line”. Is that accurate or
not?
• Why is the U.S. one of only a handful of
countries in the world that do not offer paid
family leave?
• Why do you think it has been especially difficult
to convince men to share the housework?
• How did your parents divide up housework?
• How do you plan to do this in your own marriage
(or relationship)?
• Is structural-functional or social-conflict
analysis of gender-role inequality more
convincing?
• Why?
Sexual harassment
• Why could it be difficult to eliminate sexual
harassment from our culture?
• What is the effect on the job?
• What is the effect on the victim?
• How would you suggest reducing this?
Female genital mutilation
• Is FGM a medical procedure or a means of social
control?
• What could, or should, be done about this
practice?
• Should the U.S. accept another country’s
culture?
Teen Clothes video
• Do you personally feel there is anything wrong
with preteen girls wearing highly sexualized
clothing? Why?
• Is there anything we could, or should do about
this trend?
Stoning a woman to death – video
• Are we in fact being ethnocentric when we
condemn Sha’ria justice?
• Should we practice cultural relativity in this
case?
• Why is punishment under Islamic law carried
out in public?
• Do you believe that Islam discriminates against
women?
• How is this similar or different to burning
women at the stake in early America?
Tropical Paradise – Video
• Should increased acceptability and availability of
pornography concern us? Why or why not?
• How might sociologists investigate the
consequences of the pornography industry?
• Does pornography degrade women? Why or
why not?
• Does pornography degrade our morality as a
society?