SOC100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Judith Butler, Sex Selection, Ethnic Group
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Sex: the biological characteristics that define a person as male or female. Gender: the social expectations of behaviour and appearance that we identify with being masculine or. Social construction: the idea that the social world consists of a number of shared understandings about what it means to be, say poor that humans have reached and reinforced over time. Sexism: the perceived superiority of one sex (most often men) over the other (usually women). Patriarchy: a social or political system in which men hold power and women are largely excluded from it. Symbolic interactionalism: symbolic interactionists are interested in the social construction of gendered concepts like. 2: finally focusing on sexual scripts symbolic interactionalists, frame the social problems surrounding sexual activity as social constructions. Sexual double standard: the expectation that women will feel or behave differently from men in sexual matters. Heterosexism: a belief in the moral superiority of heterosexual institutions and practices.
