SOCY1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Forces, Industrial Revolution, Separate Spheres
12 Sep 2016
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Cis gender-when one"s sex matches up with their gendered experience of who they are and who they wish to be c. i. 1. c. i. 2. Transgender-situations where one"s biological sex doesn"t align with their living experience of gender c. ii. 1. c. ii. 2. In philosophy, essentialism is the view that, for any specific kind of entity, there is a set of characteristics or properties all of which any entity of that kind must possess. Therefore all things can be precisely defined or described. In this view, it follows that terms or words should have a single definition and meaning. a. i. Gender essentialists apply this logic to the world of gender (note that no one will really argue about sex, but rather we will discuss mainly gender) a. ii. Society labels us males or females and all males/females are assigned specific characteristics therefore males and females have explicit definitions a. iii.
