SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Masculinity, Critical Role
2 Apr 2016
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Our gender is perhaps the single most determinant of who we become in life. Opportunities available e. g. health care, jobs, politics . Social, as we need each other for mutual survival; live in groups and. That in itself does not distinguish us from other species. Produce meanings of our environment, relations to another, produce ways of life we call culture. Means of communication such as language that enable us to come to shared understandings, and to communicate with one another. For example: water; meanings that could be ascribed are different; though physically it"s the same thing: Need to survive baptism, use to purify sins. Gender is another thing we attach meaning to: Seen by some as need for disparity, prioritization of one over the other. These roles can act as scripts that we learn early in life about how we should behave; No matter how apolitical" or technical they might seen. They often affect men and women differently.
