SOC 445 Chapter Notes - Chapter Bering, Is your child pre-homosexual? : Kinsey Scale

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 445
• Professor: Professor PJ McGann

Document Summary

Staunch distaste for rough play with other boys. Square-jawed readiness for physical tussles with boys. Aversion to all perfumed, delicate, laced trappings of femininity. Many parents were worried that their child would be gay based on the idea that they were not fitting into the usual stereotypes. A term that bering describes as both an uncomfortable air of biological determinism and clinical interventionism simultaneously . Indicates that the childhood correlates of same-sex attraction. Often used something like the kinsey scale to indicate how prehomosexual a child is. Caused by a social anxiety of parents having children that turn out gay so they constructed what they thought was the source of the problem which was their upbringing. These social ideals of having straight children and blaming upbringing for one"s sexual orientation creates real consequences in the social world both within the individual and society.