LABR 2Q92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cisgender, Biology Of Depression, Visible Minority

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 2Q92
• Professor: Leslie Nichols

Document Summary

Can be resisted can attempt to push back. Not male and female refers to biology (sex gender). Use woman and man to refer to gender. Connects socially constructed ideas and roles to masculinity and femininity. Context matters different around the world. Preferred term amongst scholars racialization over visible minorities as statistics canada uses. For example within the caucasian group there are many including: italian, polish, scottish. Can be multiple ethnicities within one country. For example in indonesia there are over 300 different ethnic groups. Can be a country of a group within a nation. Can connect to gender but does not always. Who you are attracted to, want to have sex with, or fall in love with. Cognitive ability for example may not see a line of text the same way. Some prefer to use the term differently abled. The social categories we just explored as context dependent. Can change based on who is speaking, time and space.