SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Constructionism, Gay Liberation, Contemporary Concepts
1 Feb 2018
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Sociology of sexualities: historically, sociology"s approach to sexuality: limited, fragmented & problematic. Ignored by classical sociologist marx weber and durkheim: concerned with social structure, social order & social control, late 1960s , among critical sociologists & social historians, 2 early sociological approaches, chicago school & structural functionalism. Sociology of sexualities: chicago school ethnicity, delinquency, crime and sexuality. However, this early work overlooked by sociologists: would later inform important work by. Normal sexuality social influences: sexuality located w/in context of heterosexual nuclear family, hegemony of hetero sexual, genital, sexuality function was reproductive reproductive sex, notion sexuality purely biological. Not pleasure: heterosexuality the norm all else. & physiological function: approach "denaturalized" sex illustrated how sexuality was socially shaped & mediated, situated in # of social contexts, constituted by meaning(s) Sociology of sexualities: studied moral organization of urban pop and rise of city"s moral regions.
