Describe interactionist, functionalist, and conflict explanations of gender inequality. Which explanation do you think most fully and successfully explains gender inequality?
What will be an ideal response?
• Symbolic Interactionists - linguistic sexism
• Functionalist - In focusing on macrolevel issues affecting gender inequality, functionalists frequently examine employment opportunities and the wage gap between men and women
• Conflict - Conflict perspectives on gender inequality are based on the assumption that social life is a continuous struggle in which members of powerful groups (men, in this case) seek to maintain control of scarce resources such as social, economic, and political superiority.
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