SOCI 1010 Lecture : RR12 - Sexuality and Gender.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1010
• Professor: Jeff Landry

Document Summary

Compare what they say about weber"s, freud"s, and foucault"s theoretical points regarding sexuality, to the research of kinsey as well as gagnon and simon"s research. Also consider katz"s research on the history of the terms homosexuality and heterosexuality as well as the other research on sexual practices. Kimmel and plante"s arguments about sexualities surrounded the meaning of sex" itself and society"s behavior towards sexuality. According to max weber, sex was the greatest irrational force of life and externally inaccessible to any rational endeavor (pg. Sex, according to weber and freud"s theoretical points, was a primal urge and a redirection and sublimation of the basis of civilization. According to kinsey"s behavioral approach, however, homosexuality was a gender disorder, a problem of inversion. According to john gagnon and william simon, sexual behavior was less about animal desires and more about shared social meanings, and that those meanings were the material through which we built a sense of self .