SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Erving Goffman, Social Anthropology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

The codes of gender identity and performance in pop culture . Ability to distinguish between male and female is crucial for interaction. If we can"t properly read those signals, it is almost impossible to proceed to any social interaction. Androgynous pose a challenge to a cultural system that is dependent on the proceedings of social interaction. We have to learn how to send out the signals and how to read those that have been sent out by others if we want to fit in. Comes from the work of erving goffman: how the communication of gender takes place, more about what appetizing tells us about ourselves, was a social anthropologist, presentation of self in everyday life (1969) Gender adversments provides an analysis that still resonates. There is nothing natural about gender identity: part of a process where we learn to take on certain attributes that we thing are appropriate.