CRM 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cheerleading, Erving Goffman, Invisibility

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 205
• Professor: Stephanie Ehret

Document Summary

Socially constructed categories based on culturally accepted biological attributes (chromosomes, genitalia, reproductive organs, hormones). Gender: socially constructed categories that divide bodies into a binary system. Feminine and masculine, and the meanings that are attached. Sexuality: a broad term that encompasses a range of concepts, ideologies, identities, behaviours and expressions related to sexual personhood and desire. Norms: what is common or frequent in any given society or culture. Normative: denotes morally-endorsed social or cultural ideas about how things should be / considered the ideal". Normal: value-statement which denotes right" and implies an opposite that is abnormal" or wrong". Once upon a time there was sex(uality) and gender . Lived experiences of sex(uality) and gender not only vary from individual to individual, but they vary historically and culturally. There is no normal" standard of sexual practices that has stood the test of time, throughout all of history and in all cultures and societies.