SOC265H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Heterosexuality, Horticultural Society, Public Good
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Comparisons between gender relations in different systems, using the chart on. In the mind 60s and 70s researchers began to realize that becoming heterosexual was a process rather than a norm. This decentered the assumption about straightness as being normal. A new attitude was formed around sexuality, which was that having sexual desires was biological but how we reacted to the desires was sexually constructed. All societies have rules regarding how people will organize their sexual desires. Instead of dividing people in to men and women, we can dichotomize people into gay and straight. Heteronormativity: heteronormativity is treating heterosexuality as a normal and privileged status or a universal subject. This concept helps to emphasize the amount of work that goes into producing heterosexual people. It is the belief that people fall into distinct and complementary groups of men and woman with natural roles in life and labels homosexuality as an abnormality or deviance.
