SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Constructionism, Role Theory, Gender Role
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Socialization does not take into account that definitions of masculinity and femininity vary: from culture to culture. In any one culture over historical time: o(cid:448)er the (cid:272)ourse of a perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s life, within any one culture at any time. It depoliticizes gender, removes its association with the politics of inequalities: cannot explain the dynamics of change. It assumes masculinity and femininity are fixed and once you get your identity, that is also not going to change. Gender is a situated accomplishment, as much as an aspect of interaction as it is of identity: we do gender not in a genderless vacuum, but, rather, in a gendered world, in gendered institutions. Our social world is built on systemic, structural inequality based on gender. Refers to a collective consent to inequality, that is secured by the idea that it is inevitable, natural, or desirable. Widely endorsed by those who benefit from it, but also those who do not.
