Tema 9 - Deviance (Deviance, race and gender), Apuntes de Sociología de Género

¡Descarga Tema 9 - Deviance (Deviance, race and gender) y más Apuntes en PDF de Sociología de Género solo en Docsity! Unit 9: Deviance Deviance, race and gender Hate crimes Hate crime > Criminal act against a person or a person's property by an offender motivated by... o Race, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, sexual orientation or physical disability The feminist perspective: Deviance and gender Virtually, every society in the world places stricter controls on women than on men Robert Merton's strain theory > Defines cultural goals in terms of financial success o More to do with men because for women success is relationships, marriage and motherhood A more woman-focused theory might recognize the “strain” between the idea of equality and reality Labeling theory > Gender influences how we define deviance o People use different standards to judge the behavior of females and males o Men are in positions of power over women > ¿ escape direct respons. for actions that victimize / Despite ¡ts focus on social inequality, social-conflict analysis does not address the issue of gender