SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gay Bashing, James Dobson, Heteronormativity

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: basham

Document Summary

This is an issue that provokes very strong passions from conservative who are. Deviance is non-conformity with norms of society. Human sexual preference is almost certain biologically based or due to deep socialization and not a choice (gender is, again, socially constructed) But under a norm of compulsory heterosexuality people who are lgbt are seen as. Heteronormativity is belief that heterosexuality is normal and everything else is deviant and unacceptable. In fact, the test points out that various cultures and societies approach various sorts of. Sexual deviance different (and most do or did have roles for people we might call. Probably the most well-known attempts to impose heteronormativity today involve gay weddings/ religious freedom and the transgender bathroom bill in north carolina. Textbook concedes it is very difficult to answer this about either genetic predisposition or self-identification (particularly when it is so stigmatized in many places)