Deck 8: E: Sexuality and Society

Question 1

How does sexuality play a part in social inequality? Consider factors including prostitution and pornography and their effects on women.Also,consider heterosexism and its effects on the social standing of gay and intersexual people.

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Question 2

Explain how sexuality both reflects and creates social inequality.

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Question 3

Apply the three theoretical approaches to the topic of sexuality.What are important insights provided by the structural-functional,symbolic-interaction,and social-conflict approaches?

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Question 4

Explain the significance of the sexual revolution and the sexual counterrevolution.What changed in each case? How do these opposing trends show that Canadian society is of two minds-permissive and restrictive-about matters of sexuality?

Question 5

Consider the issue of rape.Why have most cases of rape gone unreported? Why is this pattern now changing? What factors make date rape an important issue on the university or college campus? What strategies for change might reduce this problem?

Question 6

Many people think of sexuality as a biological matter.Yet,sexuality is largely cultural.Explain the biological foundation of sex-how people become female and male-and then go on to explain why sexuality as a dimension of social life is mostly cultural.Consider as evidence of the cultural character of sexuality variation in attitudes and behavior over time and from society to society.