SOCIOL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Kinsey Scale, Edward Laumann, Margaret Mead

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Paul Knudson

Document Summary

Chapter 8: gender and sexuality part 1 lecture 15. Gender: what culture attributes to being male vs being female. Social institutions that set up patterns and expectations for males and females, including upholding rigid boundaries, affects everyday life and is built into major social organizations of society. Upholding masculinity and femininity is a form of social control. This can be seen enforced partially with homophobia. Margaret mead: if gender is based simply on biology, men and women would act the same everywhere. Matriarchy: form of family structure where the females are the head of the family. Common amongst early civilizations like egypt and summer. Male gods began to appear with the expansion of agriculture in 1500 bc. Christian missionaries purposely used iconography of ancient goddesses in order to facilitate conversions, Sexual orientation: a person"s sexual, romantic and emotional attraction to another person. Heterosexualtiy: sexual, romantic and emotional attraction to a person of different sex.