SOC 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2 part 1/2: Michel Foucault, Social Forces, Social Constructionism
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The social construction of sexuality. (3rd ed) new york: ww norton. Marxism and feminism have challenged biological and narrow psychological approaches to sex (pg 25) It is important to look at sex from a social perspective. Sociologists first studied sexuality from the heterosexual point of view. There was a cultural change (stated by ira reiss) that the idea of when it is appropriate to have sex changed from a marital point of view to a context of affection . Cultural change believed to be due to women"s increasing economic and social power. Ira reiss documented the social character of sexual conduct. Because heterosexuality was what was first studied by sociologists, it served a baseline which as a result, made anything different that as deviant. [sociologists] did not inquire why certain feelings, desires, acts, and identities came to be viewed as sexual at all. (pg 26) William simon proposed a script theory of sexuality:
