SOSC 1185- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Problematizing naturalism and biological determinism: are men and woman really so different, critical assessment of focus on biological differences (the science of differences") Need to problematize and politicize this focus, using awareness of research & production of knowledge as value laden and possibly biased. Biological differences in the roll men and woman play when it comes to reproduction. To provide and rationalize social inequality: envision sexes as variations on a theme" rather than opposites, move from a binary system to a multi-sex system of categorizing include intersex. Intersex refers to individuals who fall between physical or biologically based definitions of male and female; is both a medical term and an identity. The sexes are more alike than different mackabee. We do have to acknowledge that there are social differences as men and woman as a group (eg: wages) which follows gender stereotypes.
