SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Symbolic Interactionism, Reductionism, Nuclear Family
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Should we think that there are more than two possibilities of gender and sex. Binary sex system male/female: intersex people who are born with sex characteristics that don"t t into the binary sex system. Gender refers to the moulds and characteristics that society associates with being male and female: there is a binary system of gender. Although this binary concept is not universal: a binary gender system is made through socialization, children that are not socialized do not know the difference of the binary gender system. Countries are introducing the allowance of having more than two gender options on passports. Peterson believed that a persons gender should match and conform with their sex, he believed that people could not be transgender. When it comes to the law, gender is a very complex issue. Some occupations are expected to be a certain gender. Gender stereotypes: women are emotional, men are rational.
