Gender Is Not Biological, Find Sociologists
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 15:40
in Psychology & Sociology
Think gender is determined by patriarchal biological concepts like a chromosome? You'll never make it in sociology thinking that way. Instead, the social sciences are slowly overturning concepts like genital and chromosomes and other science, and it is being replaced by self-identity. The criteria for determining gender now, say Laurel Westbrook, assistant professor of sociology at Grand Valley State, and Kristen Schilt, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, have changed and self-identity is paramount. Only sex-segregated spaces believe that biology determines gender, they conclude. read more