SOC275H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-8: Narratology, Escalator, Rosalie Abella
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Biological determinism the view that the behaviour and character of an organism, group, or system are determined by biological factors. Most careful scientists shun true determinism, but determinist tendencies can be found among scientists and in popular culture. Deceptive distinctions differences between men and women that appear to be gender differences, but may be the result of different positions within society. Differential socialization associated with the nurture" side of the nature-nurture debate, this perspective asserts that men and women are different because they are socialized differently from birth, thus acquiring masculine" or feminine" traits, behaviours, and attitudes. Connells model of female gender ideology, which asserts that femininity is displayed as compliance with gender inequality and is oriented to accommodating the interests and desires of men". Gender the meanings attached to the anatomical differences between men and women, or, according to feminist theorist joan scott, a way of referring to the social construction of the relationship between the sexes".
