SOCI-2636EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Separate Spheres, Cultural Relativism, Great Range
23 Sep 2018
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This often allows individuals a range of culturally acceptable behaviours from which to choose. Cultural relativism the idea that a person"s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person"s own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another. All cultures have accorded sex and gender a central place in explanations of how the world is and should be, but not all have agreed on how to categorize the sexes or on their social meanings. Every culture of which researchers know has been patriarchal. There are instances of groups in which individual women achieve exceptional authority but often, they only have authority only in the absence of men. Cultures have also varied in the degree of inequality among the social categories those with authority and those without it. Gender continuum the idea that gender cannot be neatly placed into two categories, but instead exists on a spectrum that includes your gender identity, attraction, and expression.
