Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
What is patriarchy ? How does it affect the child socialization pattern in India ?
- UPSC 2015
- Systems of Kinship in India
Ann Oakley (Sex, Gender and Society, 1972) established the distinction this question turns on: sex is biological, gender cultural, and nothing follows automatically from one to the other. Patriarchy can then be defined as the system that converts sex into gender and gender into hierarchy — one that must be taught, since nothing biological transmits…
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- The quarrel over socialisation theory
- The family as the first curriculum
- Ritual, food and the calendar of difference
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