Importance of Sex Ratios
Guttentag and Secord Theory of Sex Ratios
- Micro and macro component to theory
- Micro aspect based on exchange/rational choice theory
- Focused on dyadic power
- Sex ratios influence relative positions of power
- Macro aspect emphasizes ways that groups in society use their power to shape social structures to meet their own interests
- sex ratios influence what society considers proper (norms)