SOCI 303 Lecture 2: chapter one summary
22 May 2016
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The (cid:494)interplanetary theory(cid:495) of complete and universal gender difference is also typically the way we explain another universal phenomenon: gender inequality. Gender is not simply a system of classification by which biological males and biological females are sorted, separated, and socialized into equivalent sex roles. Gender also expresses the near universal inequality between women and men. When we speak about gender we also speak about hierarchy, power, and inequality not simply difference. Virtually every society known to us is founded upon assumptions of gender difference and the politics of gender inequality. Two basic schools of thought prevail: biological determinism and differential socialization. (we know them as nature and nurture) Sex refers to the biological apparatus, the male and the female - our chromosomal, chemical, anatomical organization. Gender refers to the meanings that are attached to those differences in a culture. Gender means different things to different people and it varies cross- culturally. (femininity and masculinity)
