SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Structural Functionalism, Performativity, Rulemaking

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

For male and female members of societies (social expectations) Marxist theory: who has had the most access to social and material. Structural functionalists: society is stable when gender roles are resources? followed. Scholars viewed sexuality as a domain whose meanings change cultures and history. Looked at vices" such as prostitution and pimps; also interested in. In the wake of the sexual liberation movement. Social context transformed focus from individuals to an interest in communities. Howard becker"s famous study outsiders (1963) argued that deviance was social construct. Argued that all gender is created through social performance. Performativity is a repetition and a ritual. Challenges our taken-for-granted assumptions about he naturalness" of the markers that we use to differentiate men from women. What we take to be an internal feature of ourselves is one that we anticipate and produce through certain bodily acts" (butler, 1990/1999: xv-xvi) Normal"- for male and female members of societies reflect social expectations.