SOCI 3820 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Infant Mortality, Fetus, Heterosexuality
25 Nov 2013
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Chapter 5 women"s health in context: gender issues. Relations of ruling dorothy smith used this term to emphasize how social processes are structured by the powerful in easy that shape our consciousness and our practices. Dichotomies refers to distinctions made between two parts that are understood to be distinct and quite different. There have long been debates in the social sciences about what is biologically determined and what is socially constructed, argument often characterized as nature versus nurture. Traditionally in the social sciences, sex is used to refer to bodies. Based on review of the term"s usage, johnson et al. conclude that, sex is a multidimensional biological construct that encompasses anatomy, physiology, genes, and hormones, which together affect how we are labeled and treated in the world. ". Gender, on the other hand is a multidimensional social construct that is culturally based and historically specific, and thus constantly changing. ".
