SOCI 2P20 Lecture Notes - Social Constructionism, Civil Rights Movements, Gay Liberation
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Earlier focus on behaviours considered deviant (outside of the norm: e. g. homosexuality; coping mechanisms of discredited and discreditable sexual beings; and sexual underworlds hustlers, prostitutes, prisons, tearooms, baths, and bars. Influence of broader social and political contexts of 1960s and 1970s: civil rights movements, women"s liberation, anti-war and peace movements, sexual liberation. Influence of broader social and political contexts of 1970s-1980s: sexual discrimination awareness, gay liberation movements, rise of aids and activism, corporate influence, consumerist growth. Essentialism: prioritizes a biological explanation for sexuality and hence limits its definition of sexuality to the individual expression of human desire and pleasure (blackwell encyclopedia of. Ignores role of all social institutions in the regulation of norms: sex as not always procreative. Pro: intersex; political arguments -> have to do with the rise of feminism. Process through which the individual takes on ways of: thinking, seeing. That prevail within society one is born into. Argument that north america is not a sex positive society.