SOCIOL 1360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Binary, Biological Determinism, Social Forces
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Lecture 1: the social construction of gender chromosomal criteria. Sex: whether a person is classified as male or female based on anatomical or. The invisible norm is not impacted and has privilege, while the other, the marked, is impacted and does not have privilege: man is the unmarked category while woman is the marked. The sociological understanding of gender: states that gender varies in several ways: Among groups of men and women within cultures at any given time: suggests thinking in pluralities. Not femininity, but femininities: is not supportive of biological determinism. Gender as a process (cid:498)the social construction of gender(cid:499) lorber, 1994: in everyday lives, we are constantly (cid:498)acting out(cid:499) gender, reaffirming gender order by acing as one"s gender (cid:498)should(cid:499) Gender as a social institution and structure the sex of the unborn baby. Gender is upheld and maintained through symbols used in society. For example, a boy wears blue and a girl pink.
