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Gender as a form of Social Stratification.
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Have a little read: ... Year 12 Social Stratification Assignment. By George Amos Gender as a form of Social Stratification. The most common explanation for divisions between men and women is that the male 'sex' is stronger, more intelligent and more of a 'natural' leader. Women however according to biological determinism are generally seen as child bearers and instinctively house keepers. Although this is widely considered a biological point of view, sociologists like Talcott Parsons (1959) have tended to lean towards this idea. In addition to age, gender is one of the universal dimensions on which status differences are based. Unlike sex, which is a biological concept, gender is a social construct specifying the socially and culturally prescribed roles that men and women are to follow. According to Gerda Lerner in The Creation of Patriarchy, gender is the "costume, a mask, a straitjacket in which men and women dance their unequal dance" (p.238). As Alan Wolfe
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