SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Role Theory, Talcott Parsons, Rape Culture
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Gender: gender: a set of social arrangements (stereotypes) that are built around normative sex categories. Biological determinism: the idea that women are more nurtured than men because they are made to nurture their kids, which can be false in some causes (moms who are bad with their kids: doing gender: gender is: Interactional level: cultural expectations in our interactions both in our house and in the society (mothers are mothers also outside of the house) Which practices within those institutions are allowed or not. To what extend gender can be seen as an institution: gender as an institution: we live in a gendered society that organizes itself to reproduce gendered differences. Gender is so big and strong that it can be seen as an entity just as a government is seen, and other institutions. Dominant way of being a man or woman in any given social situation and historical period.
