SOC102H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antisocial Personality Disorder, The Evergreen State College, Political Evolution
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Feminists argue that socially dominant groups tend to (mis)take their own identity for a naturally occurring norm, thus those designated as the other" (e. g. , women) have questioned how they become who we are". Sandra bartky: psychological alienation the social definition of what it means to be a woman historically has been authored by male experts and robs women of self-determination. Selfhood a specific form of identity that informs our sense of what we are and therefore what it is possible for us to do: captures the meaning that our social presence has for us. Sustains a degree of predictability in our encounters with others. For adults, the routine work entitled in reconstituting self occurs below ordinary consciousness. For adolescence, figuring out who we are and what we want to be is an urgent task: heightened awareness of the gendered and sexualized nature of our social identities.
