SOCIOL 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.2+3: Queer Theory

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Jonathan R.Wynn

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Summarized and organized from introduction to sociology 2e, on openstax. Chapter 12. 2 gender: gender and socialization, socialization. [a process in which people learn to behave in a particular way as dictated by societal values, beliefs and attitudes: sexism, agents of socialization, family, education, peer groups, mass media, social stratification and inequality, social construction of sexuality. [the way in which socially created definitions about the cultural appropriateness of sex-linked behavior shape the way people see and experience sexuality: biological determinism. [the belief that men and women behave differently due to differences in their biology] Chapter 12. 3 sex and sexuality: sexual attitudes and practices, sexuality. [a person"s capacity for sexual feelings: queer theory. [an interdisciplinary approach to sexuality studies that identities western society"s rigid splitting of gender into male and female roles and questions the manner in which we have been taught to think about sexual orientation]