SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gender Inequality, Gender Role, Biological Determinism
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Ideas about sex difference is the ideological basis of gender inequality. Logic: if there is some kind of fixed difference between men and women, and that difference is not negligible, perhaps gender inequality can be justified. Show how the biological difference is not significant so it should not lead to inequality. Freud: the presence or absence of the penis is crucial for gender development. Affects how you make sense of yourself: a sense of how you are lacking or how. What are some examples of biologically based ideas of male superiority / female. Biological determinism: biology determines sex and sex determines gender. The two realms theory: sex refers to the two physiological forms of human: male and female. Sex is biological and fixed: gender refers to socially created categories of masculine and feminine. Sex and gender are different: sex is biological, gender is social.
