SOCIOL 10 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - Inequality _ Identity_ Gender
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But the way we understand sex and gender is something historically specific - something that we can see change over time and explain sociologically. Sex: the biological differences between males and females (ex. genital characteristics, body size, breasts, body shape) Gender: the social differences between masculinity and femininity. Not necessarily a term about men or women, but rather about the way we understand those differences between men and women. Sociological question: what is the relationship in society between sex & gender? in common sense perspective sex explains gender. Men are more masculine and women are more feminine because of sex (naturally more masculine or feminine) (in sociology) in fact, gender (the social characteristics of masculinity and femininity) can explain the way we understand sex. Cartesian dualism: mind and body are 2 fundamentally different aspects of reality (originates from french philosopher rene descartes)
