Theories of Gender: Crash Course Sociology #33
Why is gender even a thing? To answer that, we're going back to our three sociological paradigms and how each school of thought approaches gender theory. We'll look at the structural functional...
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Why is gender even a thing? We’ve talked about what gender is, and how it affects people’s lives. But we’ve skipped over a fundamental part of the whole issue of gender: Why does it matter to us so much? Gender isn’t the same in all cultures. Mainstream Western ideas have focused on the idea of gender as a binary, with masculinity and femininity serving as mutual opposites. But other cultures have three genders, or see gender as fluid, or describe gender as a spectrum rather than a set of distinct types. For example, many Native American and First Nation peoples recognize a third gender that incorporates both the masculine and feminine, and it plays a specific, sacred role within their culture. While different tribes all have different terms for t...
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Why is gender even a thing? We’ve talked about what gender is, and how it affects people’s lives. But we’ve skipped over a fundamental part of the whole issue of gender: Why does it matter to us so much? Gender isn’t the same in all cultures. Mainstream Western ideas have focused on the idea of gender as a binary, with masculinity and femininity serving as mutual opposites. But other cultures have three genders, or see gender as fluid, or describe gender as a spectrum rather than a set of distinct types. For example, many Native American and First Nation peoples recognize a third gender that incorporates both the masculine and feminine, and it plays a specific, sacred role within their culture. While different tribes all have different terms for t...
