Sociology 2241E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Margaret Mead, Radical Feminism, Lesbian Feminism
12 Dec 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Our identities are fluid assemblage of the meanings, and behaviours that we construct from the values, images, and prescriptions we find in a world around us (kimmel & holler, p. 112) In the sense that we choose to become who we are, certain degree of individual agency. We also feel pressures from society to be a certain way, almost penalized if we don"t conform to certain norms o. There is a degree of both elements involved, we are coerced to see identity characteristics through certain lenses and then choose individual identities based on our socialization. Margaret mead studied cross comparison between societies to show that roles of men versus women can vary from society to culture to community gender that deviate from the traditional binary classifications. Other cultures overseas (india, thailand etc) have other forms of ii. In any one culture over historical time i. ii. Seeing a shift in patterns of the same culture over various.
