SOC 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Episteme, Feminist Movement, Social Stratification

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 603
• Professor: Lock Rebecca

Document Summary

It is that study of what exist, "what is". Ontology is preoccupied with the subject of being . Statement like: i know that there is sex and there is gender and they are distinct from each other. Techniques, practices, plan, method, strategies taken in order to get to the knowledge. In sociology, for example, we have quantitative and qualitative research methods. Two main approaches: realistic (positivist), discursive (interpretivist). Historically, gender was used as grammatical category, like feminine and masculine pronouns. In social sciences: gender was used to distinguish the socio-cultural construction of masculinity/femininity (men/women) from the biological (morphological) ones (as in sexual organs). - explain the difference between the categories of women and men that has been socially constructed. But, gender" became a replacement for sex. (ex. government documents or research surveys); As a category of analysis: gender provided a way of investigating the specific forms taken by the social organization of sexual difference.