Discuss the importance of the biology/society dualism to the gendered body
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Sociology of the Body Component 1 of a 2 Component Assessment- 40% weighting) Level 6 Discuss the importance of the biology/society dualism to the gendered body The body has played an important part in sociology to explain the differences between the two sexes, and why these differences exist. A lot of social debate is about the relationship between the biological and the social. At one end of the debate there are those who see activities such as sexual behaviour entirely based on biology, they are called biological determinists who argue that there is biological bases for child rearing and different sexual orientations and also refer to pre- programmed behaviour. At the other end of the scale are those who see sexual and other kinds of behaviour as entirely social constructed, they see that people learn their behaviour through their culture. Both approaches identify and stress the importance of their view, this...

