SOC103H1 Lecture : Gender and Sexualities
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Topic 5 j gender & sexualities (week 5 lecture + ns chp 4 + siq chp 27) - animals have stronger instincts: more instincts to eat; to protect offspring; - humans, however, do not have as strong instincts as animals; - human behaviors are much more complex and socially constructed. --- culture is the sum of socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects that people create; - culture gives us guidelines for how to think and act; - culture is the symbolic system to compensate our lack of instincts; - a society exists when people interact and share culture, generally in a geographically delimited area; - our own culture is hard for us to see; aspects of culture that we are blind about; - there need to be factors outside our culture to help us see our own culture. examples of sex: adam and eve. (universally accepted two sexes across all cultures), gwen (us) :
