SOCIOL 2Q06 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Theodor W. Adorno, Mangaia, Antonio Gramsci
2 Feb 2015
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Culture: totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behaviour. Sexuality scripts: culturally created guidelines defining appropriate sexuality and the roles to be performed by participants in a sexual encounter] Linguistic determination: the ways a particular group uses language influences the way its members interpret what they hear. Our language promotes/encourages/sustains inequalities between men and women through the process of ignoring, stereotyping and deprecating. History of sociology ignoring the role of gender in organizing social life. Use of the english pronouns (the, him, his ) Ignoring women"s independent existence (independent from father, brother, husband, and son) Stereotyping involves the reduction of images and ideas into simple and manageable forms; the function of stereotypes is to perpetuate an artificial sense of difference between self and other. Talk for more than a minute, and cannot talk about men. Shows and movies hardly have just 2 women talking to each other about anything but men.
