SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Enterprise, Sexual Orientation, High Standard Manufacturing Company
Policies Change
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Attitudes Change
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Gender : A Changing Landscape
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Women's employment increased dramatically
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Birth control became widely available
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Women caught up with and surpassed men in rates of college graduation
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Undergraduate college majors desegregated substantially
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More women than ever got doctorates as well as professional degrees in
law, medicine and business
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Many kinds of gender discrimination in employment and education
became illegal
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Women entered many previously male-dominated occupations
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More women were elected to political offices
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Kathleen Gershon's study on young adults' attitudes
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Most young men and women want a committed relationship with a partner
who would share paid work and family caretaking equitably
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But they held deep and realistic fears that time-demanding jobs, a dearth
of childcare and family-leave options, and their own high standard for an
intimate would place their ideal scenarios out of reach
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Gender revolution since 1960s
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The (often unconscious) activity of managing one's conduct in a way that
is consistent with what is generally considered appropriate to one sex's
category
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Gender is an achieved status: something that must be actively
accomplished
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Doing Gender
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Sex is not something just innate, something we instinctively know; it is
something we learn about as we grow into adulthood
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Has a strong cultural context
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Sex is fundamentally a social enterprise
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What is 'sex'
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What is 'normal'
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When, with whom, how long, under what conditions and to what purpose
are learned from various agents of socialization
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Foucault
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Social Construction of SEX
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Identification of individuals as heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, or
other based on their emotional and sexual attractions, relationships, self-
identity and lifestyle
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Predominantly attracted to members of the other sex
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Heterosexual
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Members of same sex
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Homosexual
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Both sexes
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Bisexual
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Gay typically referred to male homosexual
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Lesbian refers to female homosexual
Sexual Orientation
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Lecture 1.11: Sexuality
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Document Summary
Women caught up with and surpassed men in rates of college graduation. More women than ever got doctorates as well as professional degrees in law, medicine and business. Many kinds of gender discrimination in employment and education became illegal. Most young men and women want a committed relationship with a partner who would share paid work and family caretaking equitably. But they held deep and realistic fears that time-demanding jobs, a dearth of childcare and family-leave options, and their own high standard for an intimate would place their ideal scenarios out of reach. The (often unconscious) activity of managing one"s conduct in a way that is consistent with what is generally considered appropriate to one sex"s category. Gender is an achieved status: something that must be actively accomplished. Sex is not something just innate, something we instinctively know; it is something we learn about as we grow into adulthood.
