SOCI 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lifelong Learning, Ostracism
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Lecture nine: gender as a verb 01/30/19 and 02/01/19. Earlier we learned about human biology that: Women and men are mostly similar to each other. The differences observed can change across space and time. These rules do not exist for people who live in a vacuum/ never been exposed to the dominant cultures. Doing gender is emergent, comes out of interaction. Risman: gender structure at multiple levels of analysis. Individual: socialization= lifelong learning of gender rules= instructions for how to appear and behave as a man or a woman. Interactional: doing gender= in which gender is accomplished and policed through daily interactions. Institutional domain: organizational practices, legal regulations, resource distributions, e. g. indecency rules, hate crimes. Gender a verb, an accomplishment, a take-for-granted performance. Held accountable by others for doing gender appropriately according to social rules. Consequences for not doing gender appropriately= correction by those in power, stigma, backlash, ostracism. Wade and ferree, ch. 4, performances man or a woman.
