SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Biological Determinism, Radical Feminism, Care Work

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Rebecca Lock

Document Summary

Ideas about sec difference is the ideological basis of gender inequality. Logic: if there is some kind of fixed difference between men and women, and that difference is not negligible, perhaps gender inequality can be justified. Freud: the presence or absence of the penis is crucial for gender development. Affects how you make sense of yourself: a sense of how you are lacking or how you are superior. Biological determinism: biology determines sex and sex determines gender. The two realms theory: sex refers to the two physiological forms of human: male and female, ex is biological and fixed, gender refers to socially created categories of masculine and feminine, gender i socially established and changeable. Sex and gender are different: sex is biological, gender is social. The sexed body is socially constructed in two related ways: 1. The categories of male and female are socially constructed (where we draw the lines: 2.