SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bridle, Gender Role, Eugenics
2 Apr 2018
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Be sure to: pick up book from library and package after lecture. Sociological analysis of gender: making normal (gender vs sexuality) Idea of a bell curve is that you can plot people"s iq scores/sexuality/etc and the mean. The process of making women inferior is due to these practices. Project or work of identity making and selfhood: girls make" choices. Eugenics the ideal" human being, to be determined through genetic manipulation. A common practice between agricultural sciences in figuring out how to produce the perfect livestock and stock in farming. But what happened in the 20th century is people began to think the same thing about humans, to think we could produce the perfect species". Forcibly sterilized women based on their iq scores. Rope attached to back to be paraded around. Where"s the problem: if freedom of the individual and equality are key social values in western society, how do we explain:
