SOCI 2P95 Lecture Notes - Raewyn Connell, Ideal Type, Reference Group
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1500 words 5-6 pages times new roman 12pt. One of the key boxes in which our identities are housed: socio-cultural-historical context (hunter vs farmer vs mechanic, discourses (social, cultural, academic) / beliefs and values, personal meaning/feelings. Ideal type: sexuality, aggressive, tough, contained, ability to reproduce, dominant, violence, strong. How can you tell the boys from the girls and vice versa. How can we tell that a non-verbal infant is male or female: posture, movement-walking, unninng, hair style, clothing, speech-pitch, loudness, non verbal eye contact, activity level, physical contact shaking hands, etc. How significant in terms of: personal identifier how core to self". Evidenced by deviance e. g. if someone transgresses masculinity rules". Gender is core identity and core to social performances throughout our lives perhaps inescapable we are infatuated with gender" and gender expectations and gender roles a key ay to understand reality (phenomenology) Thomas what men and women define as real" is real" in its consequences.
