SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Talcott Parsons, Symbolic Interactionism, Post-Structuralism
18 Apr 2016
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Views gender diferences as a relecion of biological diferences between essenial categories of man and women. Talcot parson"s (1942) applicaion funcionalism: tradiional gender roles help to integrate society. Criiques of essenialist from a feminist perspecive: ignores historical and cultural variability of gender and sexuality. Generalizing from the average overlooks variaions within gender groups. Litle to no evidence supports main essenialist claims in sociobiology (i. e. divisions of labour) Essenialist explanaions for gender diference ignore the inluence of power and opportunity. Diferences between what it means to be male and female are socially constructed in pracice ideology. Criique the assumpion that nature and culture exist in separate realms. Argue that delineaing a disinct category for biology (nature) and another for cultural embodiment and representaion leads one to under theorize sex and relaions between body and history, body and culture mingled in pracice. Ater accident and sex reassignment surgery as a young infant, became that basis of a classic study.
