SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Assortative Mating, Role Theory, Social Change
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Looks at interactional work associated w. being involved in being a gendered person in society. Gender as a routine, methodological and recurring accomplishment. Shift from gender as internal to the individual focus on interactional. Gender as an emergent feature of social situations. Means of legitimizing one of society"s fundamental divisions. Sex, sex category & gender as analytically independent categories. Sex category: external assignment; set of construct and traits and doings that we list under gender and sex. Gender not a set of traits, a variable, a role that leads to the product of social doings. Categorization not dependent on living up to some ideal conception of what it means to be female/male. A person engaged in any/all activities may be held accountable for performance of that activity/activities as a woman or man. Their incumbency in one of the other sex category can be used to legitimate or discredit their other activities. Different sports (certain sports are off limits to females)
