SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Second-Wave Feminism, Marxism, Third-Wave Feminism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Kai Lin

Document Summary

Sex: the perceived physical differences between male and female. Gender: the perceived physical/social differences between men and women. They are closely connected, both as a social construction. Social construction: assigning meaning to social facts, types, or categories. Intersex individuals have parents or doctors who often conform them to one sex or another at birth, opposing to accepting them as the third sex . There is a great deal of variation for each anatomical characteristic in each gender. Gender is a social structure constructed to reflect the binary conception of sex. Parents play a significant role in deciding on genital removal. Based on future; it will be too late if you wait because of puberty hormonal imbalance, emotional and physical scarring. Ethical issues come into play gender council. Gender schema theory (sandra bem in 1981) Gender-associated information is predominantly transmitted through society by ways of schemata or networks of information (toys, clothes, colors, etc. )