SOCIOL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Group Dating, Married People, Edward Laumann

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Paul Knudson

Document Summary

Sexuality - objective biological differences between the sexes. Gender - what culture attaches to being male vs. being female. Social institution that sets up patterns of expectations for males and females, including upholding rigid boundaries, affects social processes of everyday life, and is built into major social organizations society. Upholding masculinity and femininity is a form of social control. Men are supposed to be strong and rational while women are supposed to be gentile and emotional. Margaret mead: if gender is based simply on biology, men ad women would act the same everywhere, but that isn"t the case. Matriarchy - form of family structure in which females are the head of the family. Christian missionaries purposively used the iconography of the ancient goddess religions in order to facilitate conversions. Male-god religions began to appear with the expansion of agriculture (1,500 b. c. e. ) Instead of life coming from the womb, life came from seeds.