WOMENST 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Double Bind, Transphobia, Cheerleading
17 Sep 2016
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Child x raised gender neutral illustrates how gender is encoded and maintained through a variety of social cues. Feminist stance understands gender as a system of privilege and oppression, it also assumes that gender is socially constructed, and is deeply interested in mapping out how,where, and to what effect. Sexism is defined as prejudice and discrimination based on sex. Feminist scholars focus on how gender is socially constructed, and to what ends, and they are simultaneously interested in how social constructs of gender are shaped by issues of race, class, age, ability, and sexual identity. C. wright mills" articulation of the sociological imagination is one of the early foundational theories for a social constructionist approach. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. Social constructionism is used to explain gender role socialization and how gendered systems are created and maintained. Sex: biological, genetics, and physiological features of males and females.
