SOC352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Determinism, Outsourcing, Reductionism
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Ideas implicated in the structure of society: organization of society changes with economy, need different analysis to look at structure vs. individual. Problematic to reduce people and hormones, hard to reduce society to individual behaviour: solid structures that have been established, unlike other animals, bodies develop in a society. Brain nerves are created 4-5 years of life especially before age 2. Effect of biology is context dependent on the environment. Everyone has a combination of traits: traditionally masculine or feminine: context dependent, people change over time. Learning is not just absorbing, puts people in a passive position: doesn"t work this way, robotic. Men have more power than women: on purpose, men construct women to be subordinate to them, on purpose for. The term is now used as an explanation for gender inequality men to keep women down: men as a group have disempowered women. Identify strongly with gender ideologies, fit more into the category of men.
