SOAN 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gonad, Sex Assignment, Social Stigma

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2400
• Professor: Rose Deidre

Document Summary

Sex: socially constructed categories based on culturally accepted biological attributes. The ideals that society places on certain genders and our own construction. That as fixed and objective as we believe. The binary system is only one way to categorize gender or sex (the way of the western world). Socially constructed categories that divide bodies into a binary system a gender binary is the classification of sex and gender into two distinct and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. Recently new gender identities such as transgender, androgynous, and gender-queer categories have been advanced. Expression of physical intimacy, ideas vary among space and time. A lot of biological processes going influence it. Teen boys worried about their clothes, baggy pants, thug/ghetto etc. , want to feel safe and appreciated, not called gay" or be seen as feminine. Make-up, tight-clothing, commercials promote what they should look like.