SOC 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Caitlyn Jenner, Female Genital Mutilation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2104
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Anthropology as history: anthropological research has helped show that the universality of gender difference and male domination is not natural or inevitable. Doing gender (west and zimmerman, 2015: harold garfinkels study of agnes , as described by west and zimmerman, is now several decades old. Why or why not: some people may claim that doing gender is just natural and kind of fun. Do you think that doing gender has any negative consequences for people: reality tv star caitlyn jenner (of keeping up with the kardashians fame) has made international headlines for coming out as transgender. The social construction of gender relations: sociology, the intersection of biography and history, studies social structures and institutions. The status and power that people possess determines their access to resources: assumes that individuals shape their lives within historical and social contexts, also began with a critique of biological determinism.