SOC 120CDWI Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Stratification, Social Order, Y Chromosome

• School: Kutztown University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 120CDWI
• Professor: Joleen Greenwood

Document Summary

The two-spirited people: native americans that behaved like the opposite sex. Individuals became two-spirited people in one of two ways: developed characteristics as children (showing androgynous nature) What is gender: what is difference between sex and gender, sex: biological characteristics, gender: social and cultural characteristics, how many genders are there, two, but two-spirited people represe(cid:374)ted a (cid:862)sort of(cid:863) third se(cid:454) Interactionist approach: gender identification/behavior based on day-to-day behavior that reinforces gender distinctions. Doing gender: doing gender, recent thinking is that gender is more fluid/fragile, needs constant reinforcement, constant maintenance. Gender, class, and race: gender as primary basis of social stratification. In order to really understand social stratification, all three overlapping lenses (gender, class and race) must be studied. Men and masculinities: ofte(cid:374) look at ge(cid:374)der fro(cid:373) (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s. The contributions of gender studies: different approaches to studying gender, socialization, biosocial, patriarchy.