Sociology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Gender Role

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1027A/B
• Professor: Wolfgang Lehmann

Document Summary

Infants are babies born with ambiguous genitals because of hormone imbalance in the womb or some other cause. Depends on whether you were born with distinct male or female genitals and a genetic program that released either male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system. Feelings, attitudes, desires, behaviors that are associated with a particular sexual category. Sense of belonging to a particular sexual category. Behavior that conforms to widely shared expectations about how members of a particular sexual category are supposed to act. Preference of members of the opposite sex as sexual partners. Set of interrelated ideas about what constitutes appropriate masculine and feminine roles and behavior. People (cid:271)reak so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)"s ge(cid:374)der (cid:374)or(cid:373)s (cid:271)(cid:455) defying the rigid distinction between male and female. Believe they were born in the wrong body identify with and want to live life as members of the opposite sex. Prefer sexual partners of the same sex gay and lesbian.