SOC 603 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sex Segregation, Friedrich Engels, Cultural Determinism
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The variations in gender definitions: mead was clear that sex differences are not something deeply biological", but rather are learned and, once learned, become part of the e ideology that continues to perpetuate them o. She did not adequately explain why women and men turn out to be different or the same. The centrality of the gender division of labour. Functionalism, maintains that a sex-based division of labour was necessary for the preservation of the society. As society became increasingly complex, there arose a need for two kinds of labour: hunting and gathering. Agree that the sex-based division of labour was functionally necessary for these societies. This sex-based division of labour is far more varied than we might have assumed. The gender-based division of labour has become a part of our culture, not a part of our physical constitutions. Theories of gender differentiation and male domination o. Private property and the materialism of male domination.
