SSCI 1300U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Motherhood Penalty, Gender Pay Gap, Body Image
1 Mar 2017
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Racialization refers to the bodies and identities of people who are not-white: false. 2: practice questions: the __________ is an indirect cognitive measure of racial bias. Those on the top are usually white. Dq: what are the indicators what we use to classify sex. Shared understandings of how women/girls and men/boys should look and act (social) Organizes people"s practices (i. e. , what people do and don"t do) In practice, rarely do we use all of the indicators to define sex. The assignment of sex is a social practice. By not attending to the social process involved in the assignment of sex we ignore the variation that exists within and between the categories of male" and female": bodies still matter! Sex is a determination made through the application of socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as male or female (west and zimmerman, 1987, p. 127)
