SOC 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3 part 2/2: Queer Nation, Identity Politics, Michel Foucault
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Epstein, steven (1996) a queer encounter: sociology and the study of sexuality (pp 145 - 159) The term queer has since been used as an insult. Sociologists asserted that sexual meanings, identities, and categories were intersubjectively negotiated social and historical products -- socially constructed. Labeling theory the view of deviance according to which being labeled as a. deviant leads a person to engage in deviant behavior. Michel foucault is a huge part of the concept of social construction. The dominant assumption that human sexuality should be understood as a biology, rooted to evolution, then translated into our social norms. Some sexual acts are considered natural and some are. Freud (1961) saw sexuality and society as standing opposed to. Suggesting there was no relation between the two. Many sociologists saw the greatest sexual organ as the one between the ears . Sexual meanings are not universal absolutes, ut ambiguous and problematic categories. (plummer 1982: 231) .
