SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cultural Reproduction, Neocolonialism, Double Consciousness
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In the video, the parents were policing feminine behavior to make the son more masculine. Your sex determines gender roles and the expectations you"re suppose to do. The researchers and parents were afraid that the son was going to be homosexual. Norms of society influence their policing of feminine attributes. In the olden days, men could shower together and bath together. Also, a lot of young boys were dressed as girls ex) fdr. Bromance was seen as normal, not homosexual. The things you like and don"t like. Can be at odds with below scripts. What is acceptable in a given group in terms of sexuality. What society (who, what, when, where, why) says is sexuality acceptable or not. Interactive: you could be in a gay club, and that"s acceptable. How we frame our questions tell us about what that society is -- how open the society is or how closed they are.