SOC 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chemical Element, Osteoporosis, Masculinity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3306
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Soc 3306: social structures & relations between the sexes. Week 3: monday, september 18 & wednesday, september 20, 2017. Gender and prehistory: archaeological and anthropological research. Research activity in north america: cross-cultural surveys to support the assumption made about the gender, generalization of findings. The samoa and the iroquois: research focus: skeletal remains, dna, chemical element and osteoporosis. Skeletal remains (height, bone size and thickness, etc. : very superficial due to ambiguity, difficulty in separating the sexes, other groups get lost. Ignores the intersexed category (deviation from the norm, e. g. , xxy, yyx : does not explain sexual differences. Britain and celibacy (nunneries: desire to engage in sexual acts voluntarily, men had more freedom than women, women disciplined themselves and turned desires to the divine. North america researchers can no longer ignore third and fourth genders who occupy different statuses in their societies (referred to as two-spirits in north.