SOC 633 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Human Sexual Activity, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Social Enterprise
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Week 2 sexualities and identities: sex discussions about sex permeate most aspects of our daily lives sex is fundamentally. Introduction entrenched in human relations and social organization: advertising, family-leave policies, wearing of wedding rings, separate restroom facilities by gender. 1940s the bulk of these works were primarily concerned with documenting, describing, and categorizing sexual behaviours researchers attempted to provide a glimpse into the lives and activities of those engaging in se(cid:454)uall(cid:455) (cid:862)de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)t(cid:863) a(cid:272)ts: e(cid:454). It exists only as a product of human activity. Issues of definition are of particular concern for social constructionists because they are said to serve the interests of the powerful. Constructing sex, the sexual, and the erotic; (cid:858)doing it(cid:859): the social construction of s-e-x. Lynne segal (1994): has identified three historical intellectual traditions that have dominated western thinking about sex. These frameworks are the spiritual, the biological, and the social: pre-industrial europe societal views about sexuality were largely shaped by spiritual and religious beliefs.