SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pink-Collar Worker, Blue-Collar Worker, Sexual Script Theory
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Biological determination: peoples depositions, attitudes, behaviours, social roles that are determined by their biology. Common sense approach: men are stronger than women, women are meant to be caregivers. Essentialism: attributing social construct to biological or genetic causes. Gender essentialism: the division of labour, between male and female differences in sexual scripts. Sexual script: primary caregiver, pink blue collar jobs. Cisgender: people whos gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. Intersex: people who were born with variation in sex characteristics, do not fit into the male or female sex. Transgender: people who have a gender identity or gender expression that is different to their assigned gender. Gender queer: category of gender that are not exclusively masculine or feminine, more of a combination of the two genders. Gender binary: gender categorized on the bias of the two distinct opposite, male = masculine, female = feminine. Essentialists: ignore the fact that gender differences are declining and in some class disappeared,
