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| Social process wehre people interact to shape our ideas about what it means to be male, female, man, woman, intersex, ect |
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| the process of constructing reality, in which our ideas about how the world works become solidified through repeated interaction, to the point where we take those ideas for granted and assume they are real |
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| Gender Varies by Situation |
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| • What women and men are “expected” to do (i.e. norms) in one situation might be different in a different situation |
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| a way of thinking of gender relations through a lens of race and class |
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| Our categories for sex (male or female) do not express the variation of sex at the biological and chromosomal/genetic levels |
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| Social Construction of Gender |
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o Produce hierarchical relations between men and women
o Define what it means to be in a particular gender category
o Support or challenge existing inequalities or meaning of gender |
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| theory created by Irving Goffman that uses o theater as a metaphor of how we interact with one another |
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| Harold Garfinkel's theory that there is an illusion of shared social rules, we make meaning out of situations, and meaning emerges from repeated social interactions |
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Patterns of social relationships, regulating interactions
• Facilitiates and constraints- makes us easier to act in some ways but makes it harder for us to act in other ways |
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| broad term referring to all aspects of sexual feelings, practices, relationships, and biological functions |
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| 3 Components of Sexual Orientation |
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o Sexual desire
o Sexual behavior
o Sexual Identity |
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| 0- same sex oriented, 6 being exclusively opposite sex |
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| person who lives as a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth |
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| person who identifies with a gender different than the one assigned to them at birth |
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| idea that heterosexuality is “the norm” |
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| Interactions are scripted |
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| fear of homosexuality and homosexual contingent |
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| people who are heterosexual can do things that gays cant |
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| expectation that everyone be heterosexual |
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| while sex work and porn are opted offensive and immoral, women have the right to sell their bodies for sex if they want. They also have the right to appear in porn if they want. There is a first amendment right that protects porn so it should not be illegal |
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