ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Biological Determinism, Genderqueer, Sexual Identity
Document Summary
Cultural constructionism human behavior and ideas are best explained a the result of culturally shaped learning. Biological determinism biological features such as genes or hormones are used to explain behavior and ideas. We create social constructs through our choices; in doing so, we reinforce our own worldview: thinking about how we come to share our worldview, looking at different social constructs and how they are create. Gender institutional (register for birth certificate: knowledge is built. Sex refers to biological categories (male and female) determined by genital, chromosomal, and hormonal differences. Gender refers to patterns of culturally constructed and learned behavior and ideas attributed to men and women: all cultures use gender, gender is real (natural way to categorize people) Matter of biological fact: patterns of learned behavior men and women. Early anthropologists ignored gender ; assumed men"s lives were the cultural norm. But, a cross-cultural perspective challenges the idea that gender is natural because gender is variable cross-culturally.
