SOC 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnocentrism, Feminist Theory, Role Theory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2104
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Freud, founder of psychoanalysis: gender identity is develop in stages through experiences in infancy, as propelled by body. Set limits for the id (controls the id) Limitations: overgeneralization, universalistic, and essentialist, androcentric theory, ahistorical explanations (ignored social conditions in austria, cannot be tested scientifically (based on narratives, sample was middle class and abused women with mental issues) Criticisms: sees gender identity as an achievement (traumatic for boys/develops values of connectivity, intimacy, and community in girls, girls and their mothers belong to the same sex, so it is easier for them. Se(cid:454) (cid:396)ole theo(cid:396)(cid:455) a(cid:374)al(cid:455)zes i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals" so(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374) i(cid:374)to app(cid:396)op(cid:396)iate ge(cid:374)de(cid:396) (cid:396)oles a(cid:374)d ide(cid:374)tities. Codification of masculinity and femininity in the 1930s. M-f test: empirical measure to determine how masculine or feminine an individual is. Masculinity overcompensation thesis: men with internal feminine identification adhere to more rigid norms in their external behaviour. Emotions in a continuum a lot, little, some or none to test for pity, fear and anger, wickedness, etc.