SOSA 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mesozoic, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Sociol & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1002
• Professor: Brian Noble

Document Summary

To provide a robust framing and key analytic practices for understanding the dynamic, changing dimensions of socially-inflected difference in both local and more encompassing flows of socio natural, cultural experience. Performativity of sex/ gender norms, interruptions to norms. Hegemony is cultural knowledges and practices which are already naturalized, taken for granted, accepted in an everyday way and considered inevitable. Ideology is the deliberate harnessing of cultural knowledges and practices in order to exert influence over the actions of people. Studying what appears to be hegemonic in culture, raises ideology into consciousness. Leads to the possibilities of influencing what is taken for granted and raises the question of agency. Heteronormativity; the assumptions in individuals , social institutions or larger social formations that everyone is heretosexual and thet heterosexuality is superior to all other sexualities. Dinosaur culture; godmothers & king trypants in the mesozoic. Ideology & hegemony of gendering in dinosaur nature/ culture.