SOCI-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hypermasculinity, Heterosexism, Social Darwinism
15 Mar 2016
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Power of elite discourses (foucault 1980): patterns of behaviour that inform the way we think or act. Based on simple dualism: (ways discourse get expressed for it or not ) Sex= biology = dualism = male/female ( only males and females)= socially constructed. Gender = culture : dualism = masculine/ feminine. Society is acting one way : politics: elite discourses of sex, gender and seucality there are ways of thinking about : sex, gender social construction of sex : The sex dualism is a social construction. Not a dualism but rather a spectrum. Globally millions of people have disorder of sexual development. More recognition of a spectrum of sexuality. Sexual scripts : interpersonal script, intrapsychic, cultural scenario social construction of gender: More gender within sexes than between sexes. Cross cultural variation : in the behavior expectations of women and men, in the recognition of multiple sex/gender combination= many aboriginal cultures.
