SOC365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jeff Lorber, Harold Garfinkel, Gender Inequality
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Lorber: gender is created and re-created out of human interation. Lorber is arguing and saying that social has the same kind of impact as nature. We do this through meaning making procedures. Incorrigible proposition (the natural attitude: unquestionable axioms we may not be aware of them. Ex. we assume that the voice we hear is coming from the prof/somewhere outside of our head. The world exist independent of our presence in it objects have an independent reality from us. Incorrigible proposition that we are separate from our laptop: see other ways of seeing the world as incorrect. Gender assignment, gender identity, gender role, and sexual orientation. Seen as an expression of the biological foundations of gender: different expectations for males and females, assumption that baby labeled as a boy will engage in activities appropriate of his sex assignment engage in masculine activities.
