HLTHAGE 2A03 Lecture Notes - Hermaphrodite, Social Media, Individualism
24 Oct 2013
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Sex: attributes of men and women created by their biological characteristics. Reproductive organs not the only anatomical features of males and females, don"t have visuals, so we use other anatomical features such as beards, musculature, size differences, breasts, and visibly accessible anatomical differences. Distinctions between men and women that are culturally established. How to act like a man in a given society, femininity and masculinity. Ideas of man and woman as social roles that define the cultural expectations for that group. easy for sociologist: is s social construction made firm by all these institution, but ultimately a social product. It is much more complicated than this ^^^^^^^^ Sex is not purely biological, also social construction. Boundaries of these categories are socially negotiated and come from our cultural understanding of manliness and femininity. Intersex infants doctors sometimes just choose sex, based on social ideas of. Not totally conform to female or male category. Sometimes it"s a hormonal imbalance, such as testosterone.
