SOC 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Differend, Gender Binary, Nuclear Family
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Lecture #9: same-sex eroticism and the emergence of the homosexual . Big idea: the notion that although there has been sexual behavior that can be described as hetero, homo, the idea that these types of acts constitute a distinct type of person is new. Sexology didn"t impose types of people, they helped consolidate these types. Sexology labeled these ideas as a phenomenon because of its academic status that overrode folk knowledge . The idea of speciation is the formation of species. It is not just a transformation in understanding different forms of behavior, but the formation of sexual species (types) and further delineation of these types. The idea that there are sexual types of people is new. Male bodies with feminine behavior; often called fairies, pansies, etc. The differend dr. "s had different terms but basically pointed and defined the same phen.
