SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Intersex, Symbolic Interactionism, Shampoo
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For girls contents (centered on girly stuff like gossip, boys, hair, shampoo) For boys book contents (more masculine, more intellectual work, exclamation marks: clothing (girls like colors, bad in math, science, boys toys and girls toys. Sex is not a matter of two categories: can be defined in many different cases. Sex on a spectrum (based on biology: intersexed (dsd) - intermediate cases. Interserxed : ambiguous genitalia at birth: person can"t look down and not distinguish based on genitalia, 1 in every 1500-2000 births (some say 1 in 100 babies) has a form of dsd. Functionalism can"t make essentialists arguments: not paying attention to circumstances relating to power barriers, no acknowledgements that working in labour market can give you power. Structural functionalists are ignoring history, social constructs, expectations of males and females have changed: a generalization in labour market that women will carry babies (biologically, this general inequality can be solved by.
