SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Essentialism, Grammatical Gender, Sex Assignment
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Culture: how you practice identity is fundamentally shaped by culture. Humans have underdeveloped instincts like a brainwired hardware: ex. Culture is the sum of socially transmitted: humans have an enormous capacity to take in new software (culture) Require symbolic systems to compensate for lack of instincts culture ideas, practices, and material objects that people create. Culture gives us guidelines for how to think and act. Takes a radical difference to give us an outsider perspective to look at our share culture, generally in a culture more critically geographically delimited area. We assume that everyone is born either a male or female. This assumption is due to culture gender difference=culture characteristics of both male and female, often consisting of some combination of male and female genitalia. Babies born with ambiguous genitals because of a hormone imbalance or. A person whose gender identity does not match their birth sex.
