SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Intersex, Symbolic Interactionism, Gender Binary
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Sex: the biological differences that distinguish males from females. (conley 2013: 283) Gender: a social position, the set of social arrangements that are built around normative sex categories. (conley 2013: 283) Gender is social and sex is biological. Social construct: an idea or concept that has emerged from society. Gender has come from a social construction (emerged form society) Gender is an idea/concept that is a product of society. One of the ways of seeing gender as a social construction is to recognize how it has changed over time. It shifted when many men who were in cheerleading were called to go to war. Women were required to fill many different spots when the men left; including cheerleading. When men came back from war, there was a real battle over cheerleading. Female cheerleaders often become too masculine for their own good . Never resolved and then men were called for wwii.
