SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Assortative Mating, Social Class
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Assortative mating: most people associate with people who are similar in status. However, they tend to marry someone who is different in terms of sex i. e. , men tend to marry women, and vice versa. That means that our intimate relations are marked by. What effect does this conjunction of inequality and desire have on. Gender is socially constructed- not given by nature. By sex, sociologists mean biological characteristics hat make a person biologically male or female. By gender, sociologists mean the expectations of behavior and appearance that people describe as masculine and feminine. These are conventionally associated with a person"s biology not given by nature. Gender is a social performance that dramatizes biological differences. Life is different for men and women, and much of that difference is socially constructed. until now, in most societies throughout history, women and men have been treated unequally, based on assumed natural differences.
