SOC275H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hegemonic Masculinity, Social Constructionism, Femininity
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Masculine" or feminine" traits, behaviours, and attitudes: emphasized femininity: r. w. Not only do mean and women communicate differently, but we also think, feel, perceive, react, respond, love, need, and appreciate differently. The interplanetary theory (the idea that man and women come from different planets) of complete and universal gender difference is also typically the way we explain gender inequality. Gender is not only a system of classification, but also expresses the near-universal inequality between women and men. When we speak about gender we also speak about hierarchy, power, and inequality, not simply difference. Virtually every society known to us is founded upon assumptions of gender difference and the politics of gender inequality. On these questions, two schools of thoughts prevail: biological determinism (nature) and differential socialization (nurture) What social scientists call sex differences refers precisely to that catalogue of anatomical, hormonal, chemical, and physical differences between women and men.
