SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neuroplasticity, Class Discrimination, Herma
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2 perspectives: nature/nurture is inseparable: organisms human and otherwise are active processes are fluid and changing, both interact. Genes are interaction w environment since we are created in womb and constant interaction so cannot separate nature with nurture (genes provide blueprint for env. : genes can develop or not develop based on env. What this means is that the western culture is deeply committed to the idea that there are only two sexes. Legally, too, every adult is either man or woman, and the difference, of course, is not trivial: our society has categorized sexes into male and female, through institutions, legal establishments, and the medical community. Medical community has given no option to the in- between, instead managing inter-sexuality so that the outcome is either male or female. She argued that this was not fair to sexes: the medical community has therefore completed what the legal world began.
