at war. Using research from Gauteng Province‚ Wojcicki examines links between gendered violence and HIV vulnerability. Beginning with apartheid history and patriarchal structures‚ she looks at how those ideologies affect the lives of women‚ specifically those who trade sex for resources. She also compares local opinions on the differences between survival sex workers and commercial sex workers. While arguing that gendered violence is propelling the AIDS epidemic and that women need protection from
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attempt to sell them an idea‚ status symbol or dream. Automobiles is a great example of a product that is available to men and women‚ but marketed in very different ways which we will discuss. For most Automobile commercials‚ they generally have a gendered focus audience they are trying to target in their ads. The majority of Truck commercials will be geared more towards
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socially constructed differences are entrenched largely in inequality. In fact most‚ if not all organizational structures‚ including the United States criminal justice system is gendered‚ meaning that they are rooted in discrimination between the sexes. More often than not‚ if an organization or any other analytical unit is gendered‚ then gender is not simply an addition to ongoing processes that are gender neutral. Fundamental in this distinction between sex and gender are the notions of patriarchy and
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1. Explain what is meant by the ‘correspondence principle’ The correspondence principle is all the lessons that are taught to you in school but they are not directly taught. For example‚ simply through every day workings of the school‚ pupils become accustomed to accepting hierarchy and competition. 2. Suggest three criticisms that other sociologists may make of the functionalist view of the education system? Functionalists see education as a process that instils the shared values of society
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In the Vocal Gender and Gendered Soundscape (2015) article‚ Christine Ehrick poignantly writes that “thinking historically about gendered soundscapes can help us conceptualize sound as a space where categories of ‘male’ and ‘female’ are constituted within the context of particular events over time‚ and by extension the ways that power
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Socialization of Gender‚ Is it inherently negative? Egalia’s Daughters My first reaction to Egalia’s Daughters‚ by Gerd Brantenberg‚ was something like "WHAT is this". I was immediately very confused‚ and had no idea what this author was writing about. In fact‚ I felt as though I opened the book to the middle of a story‚ and became turned off by the whole experience. It took about three chapters‚ and someone’s help‚ until I started to read the book understandably‚ with ease‚ and began
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In psychology many different perspectives seek to explain the differences between males and females. In societies they play distinctive roles and are treated and viewed differently. They behave differently too. To compare and contrast the accounts of sex and gender we need to define the terms sex and gender. To examine further we need to examine the key aspects of the biological‚ evolutionary‚ social constructionist and psychoanalytical perspectives focusing on similarities and differences regarding
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alcohol use. Previous research has often put a particular focus on young people and heavy episodes of drinking and its association with alcohol poisoning (Nicholas‚ 2010). Visser & Mcdonallel‚ 2012‚ felt there is a need for better understanding of the gendered
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change the stages of the monomyth. The stages of the Hero’s Journey are very general‚ just mentioning what actually happens during those stages of the story. Nowhere does it say that the hero has to be male. There are some stages that mention a gendered role. The “Atonement with the Father” doesn’t necessarily have to be with the father‚ it just has to be someone
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Radicalesbians – The Woman-Identified Woman In their paper “The Woman-Identified Woman” (1970)‚ the collective Radicalesbians‚ much like Wittig will do in the following decade‚ focuses on the marginalized sexual standpoint of ‘women’ and ‘lesbian’ that emerge from the intersection of the personal and the political circa late 1960’s/early 1970’s. It is the agenda of the political environment of the day‚ Radicalesbians argue‚ that the former is policed in part by weaponizing the latter as a stigmatizing
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