SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Quadroon, Consumer Unit, Erving Goffman
14 May 2012
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Biological sex: sex is defined scientifically with regard to biological parameters of maleness or femaleness. It is the psychological aspects of psycho sexual development. Differences between men and women that are culturally, rather than biologically based. Gender identity: basic sense of self as being a male or female, a boy or a girl. Most biological males feel like boys or men and most biological females feel like girls or women. It is not biological, it is what you see, what"s around you. Develops at the age of 2-4 years, having a sense of gender identity. Sexuality: refers to not only reproduction and the pursuit of sexual pleasure, but also our need for love and personal fulfillment. Sexuality is socially constructed trough the sex/gender system on both personal level of individual consciousness and inter-personal relationships and the social structural level of social institutions (foucault, 1980)
