SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Male Privilege, Gender Role, The Stereotypes
10 Nov 2018
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Gender stereotypes, dominant ideology & social organization of power & privilege: problematizing emphasis on natural" differences between men & women. See if you can demonstrate problematizing with reference to a common sense" idea or stereotype. Focus on women, but you can certainly apply this concept and action of problematizing to all kinds of issues, ideas, beliefs, and practices. Everyone in a gender category is not the same. Differences are socially instructed: key concepts: News flash: students at harvard and other universities are now allowed to indicate which pronouns they use for themselves, with suggested sex and gender neutral options such as ze or they (see articles by collin binkley and kristen. 5: normalizing & otherizing, privileging the normative ideal. Normalizing is the social process of making something appear to be normal, or establishing the normative standard by which everything is judged and evaluated.
