SOC365H1 Lecture 1: SOC365 Lecture 1.docx
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What is the relationship between sex and gender: how do these things go together, often times, people base their gender on their sex, sex assignment: sex is something that is assigned by the attending physician when we are born + by the larger society, so what is gender, it is a type of performance, internal identity, male= boy and female= girl, what are the consequences of gender identity and how does it interact with society, girls can engage in boy like activity, this relates to gender role. And from there, they will act/behave in appropriate ways (in: labelled as a male (cid:224) will naturally see himself as a male (cid:224) adapt to a masculine feminine and masculine ways) gender role, sexual orientation, the assumption is that you are assigned as male (cid:224)you identity as a boy and engage in masculine behaviours (cid:224) attracted to women.
