Sociology of Gender and Sexuality: Debates, Evidence, Theories, and Academic Arguments

LC 560: Gender,
Sexuality and Society

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1) Knowledge of the debates in the sociology of gender and sexuality.................................1
2) Evidence from everyday experiences of gender and sexuality in relation to academic
debates on the sociology of gender and sexuality..................................................................2
3) Theory to interpret and illuminate everyday experiences of social life and social structures
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4) Critical understanding of academic evidence and how it can be used to construct an
argument.................................................................................................................................4
5) Academic arguments in order to build understanding of gender and sexuality in society 5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The concept of sociology of gender and sexuality is basically a prominent subfield of
sociology which is correlated with the conditions of individuals within a society on the basis of
their gender and sex (Bailey, 2020). Many shocking and interesting experience are faced every
day in context of gender and sexuality which comprises of gender based violence and its
consequences on society. Further, a high level of gender pay gaps is also seen in UK along with
gender inequality in the British education system which is quite shocking. The meaning of term
gender is basically referred to a socially constructed characteristics which divide individuals in
women and men based on their norms, relationship and roles. On the other hand, the term
sexuality is related and associated with all forms of sexual thoughts, feelings behaviours and
attraction of individuals towards other people. It has been observed that gender inequality in
various aspects of society is common from past and a traditional social issue. Thus, many
theorist has come up with various approaches and theories like Feminism, Marxism,
Functionalism and many more to overcome and mitigate these issues related with gender
inequality experienced in our society (Vignozzi and Reisman, 2020). But still high level of
gender pay gap, violence against women, and gender inequality in education system still prevails
and exists in our society. The current easy is thus, focused on critically discussing theorists based
on sociology of gender and sexuality which also comprise of its theoretical perspectives to
everyday experience of gender or sexuality.
1) Knowledge of the debates in the sociology of gender and sexuality
The current debates in sociology of gender and sexuality is all about the gender based
violence that exists in society along with issues of gender pay gaps in UK and Gender inequality
in the British education system. As per the information provided by the Levon, E., 2021, it has
been analysed that Gender based violence mainly comprises of violence against women and girls
that has been emerged as a global pandemic as affecting every 1 woman from 3 in one of the
phase of their lifetime. The main factors and reasons made out for violence based on gender
norms comprises of facts that current society is male dominant and social norms are in favour of
males which is inappropriate and gives rise to gender inequality Further, it has been experienced
that gender pay gaps in UK is also another vital sociology issues and debate in current context of
sociology of gender and sexuality (Davies and Kenneally, 2020). The issue of gender pay gap is
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