A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Real Sex, Margaret Mead, Gender Trouble
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What is culture? language, beliefs, norms, customs, dress, diet, roles, knowledge and skills (way of life) of society. Institutions (charity, governments etc: society is the culture/s, social structure and interactions of a group of people. Social structure is: the frame work of a society: patterned social relations regular and repetitive aspects of the relationships between individuals and groups in a society, often reflect inequalities: social hierarchies are part of social structure. Gender, class, age etc: social patterns: regular, repeated or predictable arrangements, events and behaviours in a society. Margaret mead: studied 3 tribal groups in papua new guinea all who"s gender roles were different. Is sex just about biology, or might it be a social construction too: consider intersex anne fausto-stirling (2000): 2% of the population may be intersex, sex affirmation procedures to correct" gender ambiguity. Claudius galenus roman physician (129ad- 210 ad: galenus claimed that women have exactly the same organs as men but in exactly the wrong places".
