SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Penis Envy, Sociobiology, Social Constructionism
87 views3 pages

Berger & Luckmann
Doing Gender –West & Zimmerman
!
"
#
$
%
&"""
' #"(
) #"""
*+
A) Essentialists
$"""
,*
*
oE.O. Wilson
"!
o-,"
"
o* - $ . ""
o/ 0 /
B) Social Construconism
gender and sexuality are products of social structure and culture
3 Main Sociohistorical changes
oLong-distance warefar and conquest
oPlow agriculture
o separaon of public and private sphere
Sexual Pluralism
heterosexuality is not about men dominang women any more than it is inherently
about strict adherence to tradional masculine and feminine sexual scripts
sexuality – something more than a form of vicmizaon because of unequal power
relaons
Riane Eisler (1987): social condions now make it possible for humanity to return to the
state of rough gender equality