Sociology / Unit 7 Soc 1099 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Conflict Theory on Gender
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The idea
Conflict theorists treat gender as a struggle over scarce resources in which men hold the dominant position and set the rules for success.
In practice
Engels compared the household to the labor market, describing women's dependence on a male wage as resembling a worker's dependence on an employer.
Where people slip
The claim concerns structural dominance, and it does not require that individual men intend to dominate.
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