ANTH 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deborah Tannen, The New York Times, Speedstep
15 Feb 2017
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Social roles people are expected to play because of their sex. Beliefs and behaviors considered appropriate for each sex. A relational category: related to social hierarchies and social inequalities. Maintain hierarchical relations between the sexes rejects feminine as weak. Maintains patriarchy + violence and aggression seen as normal male behaviors. Maintains-power and privilege (mean maintain social power in most communities, it is institutionalize in ideologies that support general order in favor of men. Important not to just focus on the agency of individual must focus on the enact empower of social norms. Recent gap ad: shows gender neutrality on in terms of female trying to be like guys not vice versa. To be a real man is to be heterosexual. Fear of being labeled homosexual drives men to en act exaggerated masculine behavior. Social interaction between members of the same sex. Men can only be friends with other men; women are objects of sexual or romantic desire.
