SOSC 1920 Lecture Notes - Animal Testing, Determinism, Social Conservatism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1920
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

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[7: stereotypes about gender exist, testosterone cause aggressiveness in males. [8: genes direct how testosterone affects males and how much they have of it, when actually the aggression causes higher level of testosterone to produce. [9: but if they have higher than 50% normal testosterone levels they will become more aggressive. [10: testosterone doesn"t cause aggression, but exaggerates the aggression already prevalent*** [11: high androgen cause aggression and self dominance, environment and social factor also have an impact on aggression. Judith lorber, believing is seeing: biology as ideology p. 11-20 [reader] [11: 18th century western philosophers believed there was only one sex, women"s genitalia (womb and vagina) are penis and scrotum turned inside out, currently see them as different physically and sometimes two separate species. [12: social life and social classifications separate the two genders, female and male are not pure categories due to infertility and no sperm count and now transgendered and surgery can make one category become another.