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What is SSSM?
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The Standard Social Sciences Model which SC hinges on!
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What are the six things associated with SSSM?
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1) Genetic variation does not explain human complexity
2) Infants are born as a blank slate 3) Adults organization absent from infants, must be from an outside source 4) Psychology/behavior present in social world 5) Gender exists outside before inside 6) Mind cannot create social, social creates mind |
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According to SC, what are babies?
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Psychologically blank slates!
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How do adults acquire things like gender, according to SC?
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From a pre-existing culture which has a sexual division of labor and sex/gender schemas
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What happens if there is no core culture?
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The SC explanation is wrong!
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What are the three main part of an SC explanation?
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1) Humans born into a culture with pre-estabilished social organization
2) Self-fulfilling prophecy 3) Common Sense Lenses |
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What does phallocentric mean?
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Focused on the penis
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Which sex category do people with ambiguous anatomy fall in to?
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Female!
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How do SC and BD explanations differ?
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They disagree on the order!
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What are the two categories associated with the combination of sex and gender?
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Man or Woman
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What does SC say is the single most important thing in culture?
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Gender! We must know the gender before meaningful interactions occur.
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What is common sense, according to SC?
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Internalized Sex/Gender schema (SG schema)
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What is one of the main differences between SC and BD?
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SC: Current culture, psychologically blank slate
BD: EEA, MM |
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What are the four things that must be within an SC argument?
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1) SDL
2) Sex-gender schema 3) Self-fulfilling prophecy 4) Common sense lenses |
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What are the current sexual identities?
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1) Straight
2) Gay 3) Bi |
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What is identity?
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How you and other members of the culture understand you and respect the categories available within your culture's CSL. Its the set of expectations that is attached to "people like you" within your cultural context
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What is the connection between behavior and identity?
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Behavior is a CONSEQUENCE of identity!
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What are the ideas of heteronormativity?
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1) Heterosexuality is NATURAL, it is expected
2) It is also Natural in the sense of good/right |
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What happens when something undermines cultural categories?
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There is anxiety, and people seek to fix whatever it is.
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What is hegemonic?
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The learned ONLY right thing!
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Where did heteronormativity come from?
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1) Sexology
2) Freudian Psychology 3) Capitalism |
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What serves to reinforce the hegemony of heterosexual sexuality?
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Cultural institutions such as laws
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What is hegemony as described by the SC?
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The result of processes by which dominant culture maintains dominance by excluding all other options as unnatural
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What happened whenever sexology came about?
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Sexuality was treated as a legitimate subject of scientific study
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What are the various descriptions of sexuality?
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1) Part of inborn biological and genetic makeup of all individuals
2) Core part of being human (like hunger/sleep) 3) Driving force behind human behavior 4) Humans "by nature" heterosexual |
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What is normal human sexuality, according to Freud?
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Genital-centered, intercourse-oriented, heterosexuaility based on love/monogamy
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What is sex drive about, according to Freud?
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Pleasure! It causes conflicts within society which must be managed
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According to Freud, are normal sexual behaviors limited?
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No, there is a wide range of normal sexual behaviors. But they cannot be substituted for heterosexual intercourse.
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According to Freud, what shapes a person's sexuality?
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Biology and social/family dynamics.
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What are the three stages of development, according to Freud?
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1) Oral Stage
2) Anal Stage 3) Genital Stage All centered around pleasure-seeking! |
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What is the Oedipal complex?
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The anxiety boys have about being castrated for wanting to have sex with their mothers
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What is the Electra complex?
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The envy girls exhibit as a result of the absence of a penis.
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What kind of economy was there in the 19th century?
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Market Capitalism: Maximize productivity, disciplined workers are productive workers
Society values self-control, and refrains from time-wasting, non-productive play |
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What was considered deviant, dangerous, and degenerate during the 19th century?
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Erotic Desires!
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What kind of economy was there in the 20th century?
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Consumer (corporate) capitalism: Maximize consumption, sex/sexuality becomes a commodity
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What is transgender?
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When a persons gender (behavior/psychology) is different from what society expects of people born with similar sexual anatomy
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Do transgendered people have a particular sexual orientation?
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No, they can have many different orientations!
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What is the main difference between a transsexual and a transgender?
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The transsexual feels as if they have the wrong body, while the transgender does not (just that they are not gendered expectedly).
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What can be definitive of a transvestive?
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If you are turned on by wearing opposite gendered clothing
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According to BD, what is sexual behavior?
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Actual sex activity you engage in
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According to BD, what is sexual orientation?
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The stable pattern of directed sexual attraction
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According to BD, what is sexual identity?
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How you understand/label yourself with respect to the sexual aspects of your life
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What is Androphilic?
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Stable pattern of sexual attraction directed at masculine males
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What is gynophilic?
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The stable pattern of sexual attraction directed at females (less concerned about femininity)
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Who falls under the term heterosexuals?
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Gynophilic males and androphilic females
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Who falls under the term homosexuals?
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Gynphilic females and androphilic males
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What is the most basic component of sexuality, and the one most likely to have an evolutionary history?
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Sexual Orientation!
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What is the BD explanation of sexual orientation?
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1) There are two different types: andro and gyno
2) Heterosexual and homosexual are just different combinations of andro and gyno |
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Which sex has a larger distribution in the Kinsey test?
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Females!
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Which sex had a more stable rating on the Kinsey test?
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Females!
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Where did Lavey find biological differences?
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The hypothalamus: INAH3
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What are the conclusions Lavey was able to make?
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1) INAH3 different in women/men
2) INAH3 3x larger in males 3) INAH3 3x larger in heterosexual males 4) Approximately the same size in homosexual men and females |
