SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Two-Spirit, Travesti, Gender Role
Document Summary
Humans require symbolic systems to compensate for lack of instincts. Human behavior a lot more complicated than animal. In place of instinct we use culture to make sense of world. Sum of socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material ovjects that people create. Gives us guidelines for how to think and act. Seems natural to us, the way things are. Blind to our own culture, takes different experience (e. g. going to different country, reading history) outsider opinion then we look into our own culture. Assume human come in two sexes- male and female. Sex is not artifact of culture ) e. g french soup for french people) Assume only male and female exist in different cultures or in history. No different between male and femal biologically, not every human is clearly male or female. Not all people born into sex have the same identity. Enter world, feel more like opposite gender.
