SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sex Organ, Norm (Social), Nanny
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The meaning of mean differences and deceptive differences (result of being in different invisibility of privilege positions). Critical of studies that rely on mean differences. Hegemonic and subordinated masculinities and emphasized femininity. challenging gender binary. Asks us to analyze our individual experiences against social structures produced historically. Puts context and power in the center of their study. Gender is seen as a social structure rather than just a characteristic. link individual troubles to social issues (related to social institutions and practices) We are able to see how power is related to gender relations and how gender inequality lies in the core of the production of gender differences. argues against biological determinism (biology is the essence of our differences) We choose to focus on the 1% that makes us different, thereby ignoring that we are more similar than different. Socialization and biological determinism both sees gender difference as producing gender inequality. Socialization is not equivalent to social constructionism.
