SOCIOL 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ascribed Status, Achieved Status, Femininity
12 Jan 2020
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Social construction of gender categories based on biological sex: 2. Sexual division of labour whereby specific tasks are allocated on the basis of sex: 3. Key terms: patriarchy: male-dominated social structures leading to the oppression of women (lindsey, 2015) Invisibility of privilege to those upon whom that privilege is conferred (kimmel and. Biologically grounded theories: gender behaviour is ultimately a product of human biological nature (nelson, 2010, perspectives that emerge from this: socio-biology, evolutionary psychology and psychoanalytic theory . Sociobiology: edward o. wilson, sociobiology: the new synthesis 1975, harvard university press, systematic study of the biological basis of all forms of social behaviour (cited in. Instead, gender and sexuality are products of social structure and culture. George merton and the self-fulfilling prophecy : social theory and social structure (1968, thomas theorem if men, individuals, define situations are real, they are real in their consequences . What your text hopes to illustrate: 1.
