6.10 Conclusion

We began this chapter by looking at the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on women, many of whom left and delayed their careers to care for others, especially children. Dating and sex were explored, discussing the gendered norms and double standards for women within those spaces. We also reviewed the impact and norms for marriage and parenting, as well as violence in relationships and families. What we can do to change the social problems related to gender, dating, sex, marriage, and parenting depends on expanding our ideas of what these terms and practices mean. We can reduce social problems, increase acceptance, and allow all voices to be heard by using education and advocacy.

6.10.1 Key Terms

  • primary socialization: socialization that takes place early in life, as a child and adolescent.
  • Division of labor: A division of labor is the dividing and specializing of cooperative labor into specifically circumscribed tasks and roles.
  • gender role theory: The idea that boys and girls learn the behavior and attitudes about how to perform one’s biologically assigned gender.
  • socially constructed
  • sociological imagination
  • social institutions
  • agents of socialization: the significant individuals, groups, or institutions that influence our sense of self and the behaviors, norms, and values that help us function in society. (https://sociologydictionary.org/?s=agents+of+socialization
  • assortative mating: filtering and then eventually choosing mates that are more like us than not.
  • blended family: a family consisting of two or more adult partners and their children together with their children from previous relationships either living with them or nearby (https://sociologydictionary.org/?s=blended+family)
  • cohabitation:  the act of a couple sharing a residence while they are not married (3e)
  • consent: permission within relationships, friendships, sexual engagements, and all social interactions. consent is the notion that parties agree on the act, actions, or events that are going to happen or are happening.
  • division of labor: a division of labor is the dividing and specializing of cooperative labor into specifically circumscribed tasks and roles.
  • extended family:  a household that includes at least one parent and child as well as other relatives like grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins
  • family: a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together
  • family of origin: the family that we are born or adopted into
  • gender role theory: the idea that boys and girls learn the behavior and attitudes about how to perform one’s biologically assigned gender.
  • gender socialization:  learning the norms, roles and scripts related to genders in a society
  • gender stereotyping: a child’s biological sex determines the activities and sports that they are encouraged to participate in.
  • hegemonic masculinity: encompasses the ideas that men are pressured to uphold certain gendered expectations, qualities and roles to ensure their standing in a dominant social position, and to adhere to these they should reject feminine qualities and positions in society.
  • matriarchal: female headed family
  • nuclear family: two parents and their child(ren) living apart from their extended family (open sociology dictionary https://sociologydictionary.org/?s=nuclear+family
  • patriarchal: male headed family
  • primary socialization:  the process that occurs when a child learns the attitudes, values and actions expected of individuals within a particular culture
  • queering: to stray from traditional heteronormative relationship norms
  • Rape Culture:  an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture.  
  • sexism: the belief that some individuals or groups are superior to others based on sex or gender.
  • stepparents when another adult cohabitates or marries with a parent that has a child or children already

6.10.2 Licenses and Attributions for Conclusion

“Conclusion” by Heidi Esbensen is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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