SOCIOL 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Erving Goffman, Carol Tavris, Ascribed Status
7 May 2020
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Lecture 1: human beings an endangered species. Social construction of gender categories based on biological sex: 2. Sexual division of labour whereby specific tasks are allocated on the basis of sex: 3. Why is it that virtually every single society differentiates people based on gender: 2. Why is it that virtually known society is also based on male dominance: two basic schools of thought, 1. The differences between women and men are not nearly as great as are the differences among women or men: 2. Gender difference is the product of gender inequality (and not the other way around: kimberle crenshaw (1995, intersections of various social identities profoundly affect the lives of those who embody these categories , 1. People must be located in terms of their structures that capture power relations implied by those structures: 3. There are unique, non-additive effects of identifying with more than one group: hegemonic masculinity, r. w.
