SOC345H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinity, Cathexis
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The basics: the social construction of gender (week 2) If you don"t fit into the category then you"re considered deviant or not fitting into these societal expectations. ^he"s being normative, and making normative judgments about how men and women are supposed to act based on these two categories biased notion of how some ppl should be behaving. Looks at two roles male and female based in biology expressive / instrumental. Looks at expectations of male roles but in reality throughout life men may go against these norms. There"s a binary and a separation b/w males and females suggesting that there are 2 types of ppl: role practices and identities into which people are socialized (p. 7, the importance of socialization, role- a basic structural concept. In a structual functionalist approach there is no room to think about power and power is an important part of it.
