SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intersectionality, Wage Labour, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1185
• Professor: Lee Wiggins

Document Summary

Gender as socially constructed: taking a macro approach: taking a macro theoretical approach to explaining gender & women in society. Focus on broader patterns of human behaviour & thinking, emphasizing societal level structural and/or ideological factors (instead of individual level) as the main influences in shaping and determining our social attitudes and behaviours. Does provide insights into individuals but emphasis is on the big picture or macro level. Gender is not seen as the property of the individual, as natural", or as resulting from individual level development but as resulting from cultural, historical, ideological & structural influences & interactions so socially constructed. Looking at understanding gender and the gendering process as something that is historically specific. Accepting the premise that our social goals including gender and understanding that certain things aren"t natural but socially constructed. We will focus on what nelson and robinson call the gender perspective.