After completing Chapter 12, you should be able to:
- Contrast and discuss the biological and social bases for gender and gender roles.
- Define gender polarization and discuss its roles as a central organizing principle of social life.
- Understand how children 'learn' gender through the socialization process.
- Discuss how interpersonal relations and institutional structures in the U.S. reinforce male dominance.
- Identify and describe the social conditions in which people live affect the socialization practices and the learning of gender.
- Discuss gender stratification from both the order and conflict perspectives.
- Discuss the part the contemporary workplace plays in structuring gender inequality.
- Identify and explain the individual and societal costs and consequences of sexism.
