SOC 107 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gender Binary, Compulsory Education, Drapetomania
2 Mar 2016
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Binary thinking a perspective in which being, though and action is conceptualized as being made up of a pair. The division between males and females, categories often two parts with no overlap. Gender and colonialism colonial power both directly and indirectly worked through structure and social relations of the same-gender system often imposing patriarchal rule on egalitarian communities. Gender policing one of the mechanism through with gender binaries are enforced and maintained; monitoring of self and others to ensure conformity, can occur at through commentary on someone"s appearance or body, through violence or mockery. Heteronormativity the idea or implication that heterosexual is the only normal and natural expression of human sexuality to the exclusion of all non-heterosexual identities, represents heterosexual as fulfilling and positive, other forms as dangerous/ negative. Tendency to treat older people as they are children is more comfortable to their caregivers and distance themselves from their own potential dependency.
