SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Double Standard, Stereotype
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Growing influence of pop culture, media, and technology. How we act as women and men. Gender inequality social structure that organizes our identities and social relations. Boys will be boys explains how power and violence is related to the idea of a real masculine man. same applies to femininity. Gender and sex is socially constructed (next lecture) Sex and gender sex is biologically and physiological characteristics that define male and female. Gender is socially and cultural behaviors that give society an appropriate idea for what it means to be male or female. Need to think about abut gender, gender inequality and gender difference. Gender inequality is the outcome of gender differences, therefore it is inevitable. We are going to learn how gender inequality is a structure that produces gender difference. Argument is we are born into gender as a structure of inequality and so it shapes how we interpret our social and biological reality.
