SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Judith Butler, Rulemaking, Performativity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

Gender: refers to psychological, social, and cultural differences between. Some researchers believe that differences between men and women are innate. Men have taken part in hunting and warfare. Aggressiveness varies widely from culture to culture the extent itself and its social value within that context. Also, women"s role in child bearing and child rearing leaves them unable and/or a poor choice for hunting and warfare. Studies show that there are biological factors implicated in genetics, hormones, and brain physiology. However, theories cannot ignore the significance of the social in both how human behavior is shaped and how it is understood. The learning of male and female-type roles and practices through social agents such as the family and the media. Feminism belief in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. It lacks a fixed essence as well as the various social movements implicated in this belief. Scholars viewed sexuality as a domain whose meanings change across cultures and history.