SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Binary, Biological Determinism, Invisibility
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Believes that gender differences gender inequality. Since these two types are opposites , portrays women and men as fundamentally different and contrasting. Biological determinism = essentialism: as a product of our biology. Nurture socialization makes genders act differently: both see ineq as inevitable + see gender diff ineq. Making gender (inequality) visible for men and women. Objective pov = dominantly masc pov / standards. Many diffs observe men vs women are deceptive distinctions , not gender diffs: diffs observed in diff positions/ arenas. Ex// being in positions of powerlessness make us talk more, regardless of gender. Gender differences observed are mean differences: far more variability within genders than betweeb. Gender ineq gender differences: since we think the other way around, we work to normalize and legitimize this ineq (ex// marketing toys to certain genders) Social institutions reproduce and reinforce dominant definitions of gender .
