lunes, 20 de agosto de 2012

Expectations are constructed upon general social codes to enable social understanding toward specific dynamics. In this way, gender is just a way for letting people understand things as the individuals need to classify, in order to interact and fit in some way. Without classifications, we wouldn't be able to communicate with each other as we need a mutual understanding of things that enables social interaction. Many scientific approaches has been made to this topic, since it relates to the everyday of everybody in our chauvinist society as we can look to the work of the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman in his book "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life " or to Harold Garfinkel’s Story of Agnes (which is a transgender guy-to-female and mentioned how she empirically investigate this specific social laws - we are talking about- like being "Ladylike") In the other hand, sex only refers to a “biological classification assigned on the reproductive potential” (classroom slides). This means that sex is just a physiological aspect while the gender approaches to a cultural and identity topic in society. That’s why there’s a particular case of the intersex human beings since the social criteria is really narrow while facing a mixture of both parallel identities. Hence, in this particular scenario one could arguably sustain the fact that gender is socially influenced, if not generated. Both films show how there’s an inner struggle to those who don’t fit into the social stereotype of the male/female role. Furthermore, our society is characterized for been so meticulously reluctant to a non-stereotypical person and this struggle is what happens when one does not “fit” to any role”. Ana María Bonilla Verónica Noguera Federico Osorio.

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