SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Symbolic Interactionism, Sex Segregation, Intersex
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Social experiment: brisbane public transit, bus drivers were twice as willing to let white research volunteer board the bus then black research volunteers. 2 disinct categories, either a or b: male/female, gay/straight, masculine/feminine. The idea of slowly moving away from binary thinking. Sex: the biological diferences that disinguish males from females. (conley 2013: 283: the body, a biological thing. Gender: a social posiion, the set of social arrangements that are built around normaive sex categories. (conley 2013: 283: it is a more social and cultural deiniion. (masculine/ feminine) Social construct: an idea or concept that has emerged from society. These constructs have changed over ime: ex. Early 1900s, used to be praciced my males. It was seen as just as presigious as masculine. It was seen second to being a quarterback. It was seen to be too masculine for women. When the world war took away the men, women took over the cheerleading roles and is now seen as feminine.
