Sociology 1021E Lecture : Second Term Notes from Gender to Deviance! Just a summarization based on the importance of items to be well looked over. Meant to be printed out and to have other text book notes added to.
9 Feb 2012
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1 y sex is determined at conception by cell formation. 1-3% are born intersexed y gender is a social category; is based on social expectations; a set of social attitudes varying in different cultures with time y gender norms: rules specifying appropriate behaviour for each gender. Becoming our gender y powerful aspect of self-concept which develops in accordance with the individual s gender and the social definitions of that gender within the larger gendered order. Gendered order y gendered order: set of structural relations through which people are treated differently because of their gender. Effects y gender intensification ill prepares both men and women for the roles that they will later perform. Impossible standards leads to low self-esteem and high dissatisfaction y y emphasizes the dominant/submissive nature of the male/female relationship and perpetuates gender inequality. Symbolic interactionism y study micro level of everyday behaviour, eg: research y men more likely than women to:
