SOC 214 Lecture Notes - Essentialism
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Know the material, step back and think about it. Compare and contrast: tell about each part and then compare. There is a discourse to what these words mean. There has been a shift throughout history, started with women wanting to be seen as a human and it continued onto sexuality rights. Sex differences: the biological differences between males and females. Sociologically speaking, when we talk about sex" this is what we are referring to. Gender differences: ascribed by society and relate to our expected social roles. Gender roles: learned and socially constructed, social doing. About creating/constructing differences between men and women. Therefore, how we understand sexuality must be explored to do such. Meaning of sexuality is rendered good or bad . Heterosexual and homosexual is socially constructed and judged as such. It is the reactions that create sexual deviance which is always in constant flux.
