SOCSCI 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lady Gaga, Slut
18 Apr 2014
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Live in a world constructed with understandings of what things mean, what gender means. Enact the roles = happiness = belief your choice. Suspicious of choices offered = saddened = special humanity = of individual does not mean more in this world = understandings fought in society and in self. Claim idea that you are born into a world is not very shocking to many of us. Knowing you live in a world that has already been constructed with certain understandings of what things mean, what things are important, valued, cherished, and what gender means, what being a girl means, or being a boy means. We are aware at a fairy early age of these. Our response to live in a world that is not free to make what we will, rather to accept or reject certain understandings. Gives us choices: many of us simply obey, enact the roles the world ask of us.
