SOCIOL 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Theorem, Carol Tavris, Femininity
26 Nov 2020
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Three interrelated components/parts: social construction of gender categories based on biological sex, sexual division of labour whereby specific tasks are allocated on the basis of sex, social regulation of sexuality, (tyyska, 2008) Patriarchy: male-dominated social structures leading to the oppression of women (lindsey, 2015: 3) Invisibility of privilege to those upon whom that privilege is conferred (kimmel and holler, 2017: 5) Sociologically, status refers to a social position. Role refers to the expected behaviour of a person occupying a particular status or position. Norms: shared rules that guide behaviour within a status. Ascribed: status that a person is born into or has entered involuntarily. Achieved: status that a person has earned but was not born into (professional titles) Sex dimorphism: division of society into two categories of female or male. Is biology destiny? (kimmel and holler, 2017: 2) Gender behaviour is ultimately a product of human biological nature (nelson, Perspectives that emerge from this: socio-biology, evolutionary psychology and psychoanalytic theory
