SOC101 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 Notes Complete, in-depth analysis of lecture 5 notes + overview of chapter 8 in "Exploring Sociology"!!!!
16 Oct 2011
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Lecture 5: social inequality gender - chapter 8. Biologically rooted; describes our physical bodies whereby distinguish between male and female. Social scientists: categorize based on binaries implying diametrical opposites opposite sex : notion that our understanding of humanness that we are different, male or female. Socially constructed: what makes us males and females is a socially constructed thing that we do (make males and females) Characteristics associated with girls and boys, men and women. Born with ambiguous genitalia (penis & vagina) Ideal of masculinity that men are supposed to strive to achieve. Irrevocably tie to heterosexuality: either one or the other. Based on women"s compliance with their subordination to men. Requires women to be supportive, enthusiastic, and sexually attractive. Child-rearing practices are deeply gendered: different ways parents interact with girls than with boys. Parents spend more time talking to girls while leaving boys alone; punish their sons more often than daughters.
