SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Menopause, Cultural Relativism, Tomboy

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Bascom Guffin

Document Summary

Gender = socially-constructed ideals of behaviour, attributes (dress, appearance, emotions, mannerisms, etc) and roles that society considers appropriate for particular sexes. Reference to all the standards, ideals, beliefs, and expectations we put onto ppl by virtue of their physical traits (appear m/f) Gender roles = the seemingly diff sets of actions and behaviours assoc w girls and boys, men and women, that a society deems appropriate (kenny and smillie p. 268) Doing gender = gender is performed and acted out. How to cut hair, public bathroom to use, splitting household chores, Sex = the biological (hormonal, chromosomal, physical) traits that society associates outfit choices with being male or emale. Sexuality = one"s erotic desires and practices. Culturally informed feelings and practices involving sexual aims and gratifications assoc w the sex organs (stern, 2016, p. 292) Habitus = our embodied activities and expresssions give away clues about our class (and culture)