SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Siq, Social Constructionism, Pansexuality
25 Jan 2017
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Gender is socially constructed and varies historically and cross-culturally. Gender inequality reinforced through warfare, plough agriculture, separation of public and private spheres. Gender roles and identities develop naturally from biological differences. Lot of variation between each gender and lots of overlap. Lgbtq (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning) Heterosexism: institutional and societal reinforcement of heterosexuality as the priviledged and powerful norm. Queer theorist challenge the idea of fixed sexual orientations. 15 siq): our cultural understandings tend to exaggerate the differences between other sex orientations and same sex orientations. Sex is a mechanism by which we constitute our identities. It is through other dimensions (race, gender, class, age) that we construct our sexualities (cid:862) e(cid:454) is (cid:271)oth (cid:373)ore or less tha(cid:374) a (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al dri(cid:448)e it is a pri(cid:373)ar(cid:455) (cid:373)e(cid:272)ha(cid:374)is(cid:373) i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:449)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitute our ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455)(cid:863) Sociologists assert that sexuality and sexual orientation are also socially constructed. This is illustrated if we consider cross-national differences in sexualities.
