SOCI 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bsc Young Boys
11 Sep 2017
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Imposing categories of sex and gender are socially driven because they are used as means of social control and socialization. With the expanse of capitalism, society required a method of limiting what men and women (and others) can do. Sexual and gender practices vary according to context, therefore the categories that we use today to discuss sex and gender may fail in adequately describing what sex and gender represented throughout history. Isolating sex and gender eliminates the biological factor present in both. The dst is a limited theory because it does not explain how the world is, it simply outlines the variety of ways individuals can experience the world.
