SOC 001 Lecture 9: Sociology 1 (Introduction to Sociology) - 9
3 Nov 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
William B.
College of the Sequoias
Soc 1
Introduction to Sociology
Recap from last lecture:
○ Sex and gender: The Great Binary
○ Search for Essential Differences: “Plumbing or Destiny”?
○ What Difference Matters?
○ What do we DO with the difference?
Growth in gender equality leads to increase in class inequality
○ High income workers marry high income workers
How do we arrange family? Sex? Gender? Livelihood? Houses and neighborhoods?
○ Heterosexual (one of each)
○ Once and Forever
○ Economic Unit, social unit, child-rearing unit
■ Sex? Yes that too, but shhhh
○ Sales Package (“myth”?): Romantic love
Free Love?
Inserter vs Insertee (Homosexuality)
○ Inserter is not seen as homosexual while insertee is treated like a woman
○ Greek Love
○ Arab Culture, Mediterranean culture
○ Italian immigrant men in NYC
○ Prisons, military
Judith Stacey
○ How do they get organized around the world?
○ West Hollywood
■ Male/male, female/female, 3somes, 5somes
○ Masuo (Na) of China
■ No marriage, no divorce, no “spinsters”, no orphans
○ South Africa
■ Constitutional dilemmas
● Honoring gay rights
● Honoring indigeneity
● Polygamy
○ Sharing husbands (few in number)
○ Avoids hypocrisy
Recitation –
Variance of gender non-duality and homosexuality blended together
Romantic love
○ Ideology of patriarchy
○ Public sphere vs private sphere
■ Distinction between “nasty” outside and warm inside
■ Finding a partner is fining an oasis
■ Public sphere – civil society
