SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Determinism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Lock Rebecca

Document Summary

Sex difference is the ideological basis for gender inequality. Logic: some kind of fixed difference between men and women. Who benefits from the maintenance of gender inequality. Freud: presence/absence of penis = critical to gender development because it affects how you make sense of yourself whether you are lacking or superior. Sex = gender } both biologically based. Sex are the two physiological forms of human: m & f (biological + fixed) Gender is socially created categories of masculine and feminine (established + changeable) Sexed body socially created by: the categories of male and female are socially constructed, the material body can be constructed. Prior to 18th century: 1 sex - women were the inverse of men. Both sex and gender are socially constructed. 20% of women in ca in poverty single females in low income. Women do most of unpaid domestic work. Socialization = main source of gender inequality.