Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Capital, Cisgender
6 Apr 2017
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Gender: socially constructed, acknowledges biology exists inside the realm of social context, recognizes all populations are gendered- people experience their worlds and are treated in their worlds based on gender world relates to your perception. Importance of recognizing how gender shapes and is shaped by conditions, practices and relations (markets, power, and inequity: not a dichotomy growing area of research. Intersex case study case in-point: 1-4% this number of people born with intersex in canada, 1990s parent"s taught to see children as problematic, allowable difference is shrinking, assignment, bi-potential and choice was remove, surgery is irreversible. Social safety nets: the policies and practices put in place to help the vulnerable, transfer programs in place to prevent the poor/vulnerable populations from falling below, not to negate poverty but support vulnerable people from falling below a. Social safety nets are there to provide support during unexpected life events:
