SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Normative Social Influence, Sex Tourism, Family Wage
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Sexual orientation: attraction that people feel for others. Double standards: different standards for sexual behaviors apply to men and women. Symbolic interaction: shaping sexual experience social approval and taboos make some forms of sexuality permissible and others not. Social construction perspective: process one goes through discovering they are gay. Queer theory: getting rid of one form of sexuality being normal. Sex tourism: practice whereby people travel to particular parts of the world specifically to engage in commercial sexual activity. Homophobia: fear and hatred of lesbians and gays. Heterosexism: institutionalization of hetersecuality as the only socially legitimate sexual orientation. Eugenics: scientific principles of genetic selection to improve offsprings of the human race. Acquaintance rape: forced and unwanted sexual relations by someone who knows the victim. Sexual revolution: widespread changes in men"s and women"s roles and the greater public acceptance of sexuality as a normal part of social development. Kinship system: relationship that define people"s relationship to one another within a family.
