SOCB22H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Emotional Labor, Erving Goffman, Gie
Document Summary
Zimmerman lay out research agenda for understanding how humans become competent gender actors. By focusing on improvisational quality of gender and by emphasizing that it is accomplished by interactions with an in response to the action of a fellow gendered humans. Sex was described as being ascribed by biology: and natalie, hormones and physiology. Gender we said was an achieved status: that which is constructed through psychological cultural and social means. To look at the difference between the two we look at hermaphrodites and anthropological investigation of strange and exotic tribes. We contend that doing gender is undertaken by women and men with competence as members of society is hostage to its production. Placement in sex category is achieved to application of sex criteria in everyday life categorization is established and sustained by the socially required ide(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)ato(cid:396)(cid:455) that p(cid:396)o(cid:272)lai(cid:373) o(cid:374)e (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396)ship a(cid:374)d o(cid:374)e o(cid:396) the othe(cid:396) (cid:272)atego(cid:396)(cid:455).
