SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Interpersonal Attraction, Sam Groth, Class Discrimination
8 Apr 2016
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Biologically rooted; described our physical bodies whereby disinguish between male and female. Socially constructed characterisics associated with girls and boys, men and women. Transgender has been used as an umbrella term for those who do not it into normaive construcions of sex and gender. Transsexual used to encompass those who undergo sex reassignment (realignment) surgery. Ideal of masculinity that men are supposed to strive to achieve. Requires men to be successful, capable, and reliable. Based on women"s compliance with their subordinaion to men. Requires women to be supporive, enthusiasic and sexually atracive. Parents spend more ime talking to girls while leaving boys alone; punish their sons more oten than daughters. Hidden curriculum; girls learn that they are not as important as boys. Teachers interact with boys more than girls in classroom. Praise girls for being congenial and neat while boys praised for intellectual quality. Housewives of jersey shore, the hills, housewives of disney.
