SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Incest Taboo, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Extramarital Sex
2 Mar 2016
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Understanding sexuality: sex: a biological issue. Intersexual people: people with both male and female genitals. Transsexual: people who feel they are one sex even tho they"re not: sex: a cultural issue. One cultural universal is the incest taboo (norm forbidding sexual relaions between family. Controlling sexuality among close relaives is a necessary element of social organizaion. Sexual aitudes: our culture = individualisic, therefore many of us believe that we should do whatever we want, many of us see sexual conduct in terms of personal morality, sexual revoluion. Roaring twenies people moved out to ciies and had more sexual freedom. Late 1960s sexual revoluion young culture dominated if it feels good, do it sex drugs music . Baby boom generaion (1940-60) became the irst cohort to grow up with the idea that sex was part of life with or without marriage. Greater openness about sexuality develops as socieies become richer: the sexual counter-revoluion.
