APA 1302 Lecture 11: Lecture 11 - Sociology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 1302
• Professor: Michael Robidoux

Document Summary

Changes in gender ideology: a prerequisite for gender equity. Gender is a fundamental organizing principle of social life. * think about and plan for our future. Gender ideology in canada is based on a two-category classi cation system that: Assumes two mutually exclusive categories: herterosexual male and heterosexual female. Encourages these categories to be perceived in terms of difference, as opposites . Leaves no space for those who do not t into either of the two categories. Involves inequities when it comes to power and access to power. Give some men more access to power while restricting the range of behaviour among all men. Marginalize gays and lesbians by categorizing them as being out of normative bounds. Lead women to be more apt to push gender boundaries while men are more apt to police gender boundaries for themselves and women. Belief that there are only two combination: xx, xy. This constitutes a binary classi cation system(poles): male and female.