SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Time Bind, Precarious Work, Laud Humphreys
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Four main ideas on gender (siltanen & doucet) 1 gender is a vantage point of critique (feminism is an activist ideology, not just academic) 2 gender is a social construction (not an essential, biologically based, unchangeable characteristics of humans) 3 gender is realized in social roles and institutions (gender is both and identity and structural constraint, which affects both women and men) 4 gender is a relation of inequality (not just difference); depends. Knezevic: this reflects the development of north american feminist sociology and assumes high salience of gender/impossibility of gender-neutral social arrangements. Gender is a socially constructed identity that is thought to be appropriate to a biological sex. Essentialism: view that male-female differences are universal and largely reflect biological differences. Gender identities differ across time and societies and they are not binary and polar opposites. For example, though men may be strong, it doesn"t mean that women are weak.
