SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Symbolic Interactionism, Femininity, Jacques Lacan
25 May 2016
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Our understanding of our gender roles is based on how society perceives us. Whether our beliefs about how others perceive us are true or not, it is those beliefs that truly shape our ideas about ourselves. Thus, if society views a man as dominant, he will also perceive himself to be dominant and his social interactions will maintain this belief. Hannas social interaction with her boss, boyfriend and friends play a role in the construction of self. Our internalization (belief) of the reactions of others towards us is more important than reality. Our imagination of how other see our appearance. Our imagination of the others judgment of our appearance. Some sort of self feeling, such as pride or shame, determined by our imagination of the others judgment of us. Both masculinity and femininity are preformed gender identities. Gender is something we do or perform, its not something we are. We re-make gender roles via symbolic interactionism.
