SOSC 1350 Study Guide - Bertha Wilson, Father Figures, Coverture

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

Document Summary

Institutional, institution is like the law, and other structures as well, religion, medicine, prisons. Ideology is a set of ideas attempts to make sense of the world: heterosexuality assumed to be normal . Heterosexual marriage was the only socially and legally in that institution, bearing and. Compulsory heterosexually, is compulsory to society and if not heterosexual then you are rearing children at a disadvantage. Only option for women was to long term heterosexual marriage. Heterosexual marriage is not natural but compulsory*: critiques the idea that homosexuality is always the. Problem in need of investigation continue to name homosexuality as a problem. It"s supposed to be natural not a problem: recent research asks us to investigate the social construction of heterosexuality for a change, the social construction of heterosexuality and. Homosexuality : contemporary understanding of both heterosexuality and homosexuality [note problematic nature of latter term] are of recent origin very specific to modern western society.