SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Androcentrism, Sare, Sexual Selection

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2040
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Research on intersexuals have helped better understand the social processes that shape gender assignment to the construction of a sex category. Two positions represent fairly distinct conceptions of the body and are thus the reason there is disagreement on how much sex is socially constructed. One belief (kesler and mckenna) is that ge(cid:374)der is(cid:374)"t grou(cid:374)ded i(cid:374) (cid:271)iolog(cid:455), (cid:271)ut the so(cid:272)ial symbolism around it. The biological or genetic aspects of maleness and femaleness cannot be understood as fully separate and distinct from the social processes and practices that give meaning to these characteristics. Each framework focuses attention on different aspects of the social world, therefore, each theory asks different questions and draws different concs. Allows people to perceive certain things that was not present in another framework. One framework alone is insufficient for understanding gender. The three frameworks for understanding gender: individualist, interactional, and institutional approaches. Individualist: o(cid:374)e"s perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455), traits a(cid:374)d e(cid:373)otio(cid:374) deter(cid:373)ine their gender.