ATS1365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prentice Hall, Social Constructionism, Centrality
8 May 2018
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INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY: LECTURE 7
MODULE: GENDER AND SOCIETY: LECTURE 1
Redefining Gender and Society
JaneMaree Maher
Module Overview
Week 7: Rethinking Gender and Society
In this week, we introduce key gender concepts, including the distinction between sex and
gender; we then begin to explore the new gender frameworks that are emerging in
contemporary societies. We explore the range of ways that gender differences define
everyday life and social interactions.
What is Gender?
• Some Key Terms
• Sex: refers to a pesos iologial ad aatoial attiutes
• Gender: describes characteristics, behaviours and norms society ascribes to
persons on the basis of sex
• Dominant Ideology: a cluster of ideas that tend to dominate thinking, even
when they are not coherent
• Masculine and Feminine: the many behaviours we associate with men or
women
• Stereotypes: oversimplified conceptions that people who occupy the same
status goup ie. Woe, poo people, ih people et shae etai
traits in common
• Source: Lindsey, :. (2005) Gender Roles: A Sociological Perspective,
Upper Saddle Rive, N.J; Pearson Prentice Hall.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR1A9cDhZ4
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSIEXtDEiOM&feature=related
• Source: Craig, S. (1992) Men, Masculinity and the Media,
• Newbury Park: Sage.
Centrality of Gender as an Analytic Tool/Concept
• Sociology – works to understand the relationship between personal experiences and
the social structures we inhabit (Mills 1954)
• Development in the past several decades not only of new knowledge – but of new
ways to understand sexual difference and gendered bodies/epeiee…o-going
hage to hat e ko
Gender as a way to Analyse
• Connell
• Gender politics almost always has this dimension of intimacy, as well as
involving larger social relations. That is one reason gender change can be so
threatening
• Gender is lived everyday but is simultaneously structural, and impacts on
everything we come into contact with
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Document Summary
In this week, we introduce key gender concepts, including the distinction between sex and gender; we then begin to explore the new gender frameworks that are emerging in contemporary societies. We explore the range of ways that gender differences define everyday life and social interactions. Upper saddle rive, n. j; pearson prentice hall: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=tr1a9cdhz4, http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=csiextdeiom&feature=related, source: craig, s. (1992) men, masculinity and the media, newbury park: sage. Gender as a way to analyse: connell, gender politics almost always has this dimension of intimacy, as well as involving larger social relations. That is one reason gender change can be so threatening: gender is lived everyday but is simultaneously structural, and impacts on everything we come into contact with. Two gender stories: older two sex structures, material and institutional discourses, gender diversity and inclusion, newer structures of equality (same sex marriage, fluidity and complexity.
