SOCL 2505 : Exam 1
Document Summary
What do families do: ensure order, defend against outsiders against outsiders for protection of family and property, provide labor, assist others in group, recruit new members. Historic family activities: production (clothes, food, etc. )= familial mode of production: characteristics, self-sufficient, farming family, grow food, raise animals, produce clothing and build dwellings. 1946-1964 considered products of baby booming: birth rate rose substantially, explanations: Strong economy- idea of supply and demand. Important questions: what is the difference between sex and gender, sex= biological creation, gender= social creation, how many genders are there, two-spirits, intersexual, transsexuals, mainstream contemporary society conceptualizes two gender- The gestational construction of gender: gestation- nine-month development of the fetus inside the mother"s uterus, during the second trimester is when the release of the androgens occurs. Gender & male domination: focus is on the structure of society, hierarchies of dominance & power, economic & political system, patriarchy- male dominance over women, sex-gender system, capitalism and socialism.
