SOC101R Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Bell Curve, Double Standard, Radical Feminism
6 Dec 2016
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Language is gendered and works to reproduce the gendered order. Linguistic sexism: tendency to communicate sexist messages - Sex is determined at conception as a result of cell formation. Estimate is 1-3% of babies born are intersexed . Based on social expectations for individuals stemming from biology. Set of social attitudes that can vary from culture to culture and over time within a society. This process gives us ideas about gender, and we learn how to perform this gender. Powerful aspect of self-concept which develops in accordance with the individual"s gender and the social definitions of that gender within the larger gendered order. Gendered order: set of structural relations through which people are treated differently because of their gender. Patriarchy: a system of dominance in which cultural, political and economic structures are created by men and maintained for the benefit of men. Traits associated with men are more valued than those associated with women.
