SOC219H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)
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Explain how gender bending calls into question gender norms while simultaneously reifying them. Lorber 1997: gender is so ingrained in everything we do that we often take for granted. Often goes unnoticed among people, stereotypes; male and female. We find it funny when people act out these stereotypes. Many people who show and live on a daily basis who show that gender and biology is not equitable. Gender is a product of the social world; learned behaviours created and re-created through human interaction. When we don"t follow what is normal ; that is when we as a society get concerned; centered on pre-existing norms. Soc219 - lecture 1 - january 2nd, 2016: we can look a gender as a social institution because there are formal and informal ways in which gendered behaviour is sustained. For individuals - gender meaning sameness: in early childhood we learn what it means to be a boy or a girl from watching and learning.
