KP211 Lecture 10: KP211 Lecture 10
Document Summary
Structural functional view: what is gender and what is its role in society, how does gender in uence the social institution of sport and vice versa. What does the data say: journal article methods and ndings, operationalizing gender, combining theories. What is gender: the social or cultural distinctions associated with being a male or a female. What is sex: physiological and biological di erences between male and females. Gender and sex are the same: cultural and social de nitions of masculinity and femininity tied to sex. Pre-industrial social organization: expressed through gender roles. How men and women should act and behave. Division of labour: mimicking nature, maximum e ciency. Changes in the post wwii family: women enter the work force. Imbalance between women desires and traditional gender roles. Fluidity of gender roles accepted: constraints in part due to natural sex, society working to incorporate women desires into structure. Men: sports a traditional marker of masculinity.