SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Bender, Jeff Lorber
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Questions of the day= test prep questions *: gender is part of our social world, how we identify and how we are perceived don"t always correspond, gender bending= one biological system but presents themselves as the opposite. Gender as a social construction society) enforcement (we look towards others of the same sex) and the use of gender markers (way we ascribe meaning & values to it) (gender markers) We can look at gender as a social institution because there are formal and. Social statuses are constructed through teaching, learning, mimicking and. Western cultures only have two genders male and female(building block of. A lot of social control as to how to behave (ex: (cid:498)lady like(cid:499)) Gendered statuses- expectations on how to behave, how evaluated depends on historical location. Gendered division of labour: tends to be a divison on work & domestic jobs, women tend to have more responsibility at home informal ways in which gendered behavior is sustained.
