SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Jungle Gym, Neurochemistry, Social Inequality
3 May 2018
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Bio Social Approaches to Sex and Gender (2) CNTD
Gender and Bird and Rieker’s “Integrated Approach”
- Bird and Rieker, 1999
- Reflects biosocial approach to gender
- Interaction of biological and social factors
- Space for considering gender inequalities and their resolution
Amplification and Suppression and Biosociality
- Anne Fausto-Sterling
- She is a biologist and one of the first theorists to demonstrates work within the
biosocial framework
- On biosociality of gender and sex differences
- “There are a very few absolute sex differences and… without complete social
inequality we cannot know for sure what they are”
- Biological reduction = dominant paradigm, but…
- Cannot so easily separate out biological vs. social contributions
- Dominant paradigm
Examples of Emerging Biosocial Approach
- Dynamic Systems Theory
- Cultural difference becomes bodily difference (related to race becoming
biology; gender can become biology→ what you see and take for granted as
absolute/ inherent, we black box that off
Biosociality and Gender
- Broadly, gendered social expectations, interactions, and organization asserted to be
Complex Systems Theory (Diez-Roux)
- Social antecedents
- Social processes as a distal antecedents of proximate biological causes of
disease
- EX: Jungle gym with rusty nail
- Some biological outcome that is affected
- Your assigned gender will place you having a differential risk of some
biological process happening
- Social modifiers
- Social factors as contexts which interact with (modify) biologic processes
leading to disease (context allows for identification of genetic “causes”)
- Social embodiment
- Social factors are capable of actually modifying both structural and functional
aspects of biology (embodied in biological processes)
- Not only is it your immune response, but we see changes in an epigenetic
level
Document Summary
Bio social approaches to sex and gender (2) cntd. Space for considering gender inequalities and their resolution. She is a biologist and one of the first theorists to demonstrates work within the biosocial framework. On biosociality of gender and sex differences. There are a very few absolute sex differences and without complete social inequality we cannot know for sure what they are . Cannot so easily separate out biological vs. social contributions. Cultural difference becomes bodily difference (related to race becoming biology; gender can become biology what you see and take for granted as absolute/ inherent, we black box that off. Broadly, gendered social expectations, interactions, and organization asserted to be. Social processes as a distal antecedents of proximate biological causes of disease. Your assigned gender will place you having a differential risk of some biological process happening. Social factors as contexts which interact with (modify) biologic processes leading to disease (context allows for identification of genetic causes )
