Sexuality and Identity
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- Created on: 05-05-18 17:47
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- Sexuality and Identity
- How are they linked?
- Means a persons sexual orientation
- It is something that society can seek to control
- Attitudes towards sexuality vary between cultures and over time.
- Weeks - sexuality is a social and historical construct
- Agents of socialisation such as religion,t the media and the law can pass on attitudes about sexuality.
- Religious control
- Religion tends to promote a norm of heterosexuality and marriage
- Feminists argue that Religion oppresses female sexuality by imposing the norm of staying a virgin until marriage.
- Functionalists think that the control and channelling of sexuality is crucial to the continuation of society.
- The New right see, homosexuality, abortion and *********** are threats to social order.
- Post-modernists say religion no longer has as much of an influence.
- The media
- Very few characters on TV and film are gay
- The media is increasingly reporting sexuality in a more positive way.
- Early media reporting of HIV and AIDS had a prejudiced aspect
- Some tabloid newspaper refereed to AIDS in the 1980s as the gay plague
- Social attitudes
- Homosexuality used to be illegal
- Over the last few decades there has been moves towards equality.
- Marriage Act 2013 legalised gay marriage
- The equality Act 2007 made it illegal to discriminate against gay men and women in the provision of goods and services.
- How are they linked?
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