SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexual Identity, Herbert Blumer, William Simons
16 Oct 2017
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It is very subjective: gender identity basic sense of self as being a male or female, a boy or a girl. It is the largest sex difference: most biological males feel like boys or men and most biological females feel like girls or women. Sexuality: sexuality - refers to not only reproduction and the pursuit of sexual pleasure, but also our need for love and personal fulfillment. It incorporates many biological, psychological and cultural factors. It includes our awareness of and reaction to our maleness or femaleness: ex. Two-spirits might have relationships with people of either sex: this term is used to describe peoples of indigenous descent who embody the spirit of multiple genders (male and female) (cid:862)nor(cid:373)ative(cid:863) diagra(cid:373) of sex, ge(cid:374)der a(cid:374)d attractio(cid:374) Sexuality research: 1890s-1930s: moralistic social problem, 1940s-1960s: modern sex research, esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h took (cid:862)(cid:373)o(cid:396)alisti(cid:272) so(cid:272)ial p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)(cid:863) app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h to stud(cid:455) se(cid:454)ual (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396), 1940s: alfred kinsey and other behavioral scientists, deviance researchers-(cid:395)ualitati(cid:448)e a(cid:374)al(cid:455)ses.
