Social StratificationGenderGender, Power, and InequalitySocio-Political OrganizationSocial StratificationANTY 101D 1st Edition Lecture 23Social StratificationPolitical, Social, and Gender Inequality Gender-Sex v. Gender • Gender is socially constructed; learned • Sex is completely biological; male or female• Behaviors can affect biology-guys acting as main caregiver can send feminine hormones up and masculine hormones down -Gender Roles: Arbitrary • masculine and feminine -not the same cross culturally -Third Genders: India, Samoa, Two-Spirt (berdache) -Intersexuals (1% population= 70 million)Gender, Power, and Inequality -Gender roles: tasks/ behaviors a culture assigns to sexes • Cross cultural studies • Nazeré, Portugal vs. Kypseli, Greek Village These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-Gender and Power• Learned social & cultural value • Public and private spheres; overlap of spheres • Dobe Ju?-Very little gender stratification Socio-Political Organization-Morton Fried (1697) and Elman Service (1972)• Categorization of societies based on -Population sizes-social organization and stratification -bureaucracy and centralization & authority • Increasing stratification => Decreasing Personal Autonomy -Why allow leaders?• Leadership by consensus and or/coercionSocial Stratification -Condition by which people are hierarchically divided and ranked relatively to each other • Unequal access to resources, influence, decision-making and/or prestige• Ability v. Heritability (socially acknowledged inequality)• Embedded in kinship systems; except in State societies-Correlated with population and sedentism -Political Social and Gender Stratification increases with Population size and
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