SOC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dej, Erving Goffman, Mantra
18 Apr 2014
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In her article am i a woman? myra j. hird cites the following passage from erving. Hird is referring to the transgender community in our society and how they are able to carry out a perfect performance of a certain sex. Even though there is a grey area of sex, society has sent two clear distinctions, either you are a man or a women and that distinction determines how you act, talk or dress. However, the performance of transgender threatens the rigid distinction and weakens our thinking about what is natural. For example, an individual born as a man acting like a women seems unnatural and just does not add up in the eyes of society. The performance of the imposter tells us one key thing: sex or gender is not entirely natural, it is socially constructed from the way we think, act, dress talk etc.
