SOCI-100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Household Division, Implicit-Association Test, Sheila Jeffreys
25 Apr 2018
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Elite discourses of sex, gender, and sexuality: when particular understandings emerge from positions of authority, those understandings become elite discourses and are widely accepted. Gender is socially determined through socialization processes in the context of cultural norms. Attraction to members of the opposite sex is heterosexuality, while attraction to members of the same sex is homosexuality: both these terms are dependant on the view of sex as consisting of only two. Is it more accurate to think of the sexes not in terms of a dualism but rather as a spectrum. There is a wide range of physical sex differences, just as there are a multitude of possible combinations of primary, secondary, and chromosomal characteristics. In some circumstances, we will speak with greater precision. Because sexes fall along a spectrum, this is a difficult question: some indicuduals may be labelled as intersexed at birth because of ambiguous external genitalia.
