Stratification by Gender and Sexuality Discussion

Week 3 

Preparation

• Read Chapter 11, Stratification by Gender and Sexuality, in the textbook. No outside/web sources, please.

Assignment

Sociologists describe gender roles as learned patterns of behavior that a society expects of men and women.  In other words, what we know as masculinity is a set of qualities that we expect to find in a typical man and femininity a set of qualities we expect to find in a typical woman.  Increasingly we are becoming aware that there may not be only one typical package of qualities that make up being female or male.  Some sociologists prefer to speak of the “performance of gender” since more and more men and women are performing roles once considered the domain of the other gender.

Please present your response in paragraphs with clear sentences, proper spelling, grammar, sentence structure, tense agreement, etc.  You will be graded on both content (did you respond to each prompt and provide a citation/reference for the article you found?) and format (have you followed all structural requirements like proper spelling, grammar, sentence structure, tense agreement?)