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Melting Pot Theory

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Priding itself on free will and inclusion America has been the poster nation for what many outsiders would call the melting pot theory. However true this is not the case for many minority groups in the United States. One statistically small group is made up of people who identify as Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Asexual or any combination thereof. More commonly abbreviated as LGBTQ+. Normative aspects of society will sometimes label these groups as deviant. Consequently, For sociologists, this has opened a new frame of thinking known as Queer theory,this in turn adds to the field of sociology as a whole. Exploring this field of study Arlene Stein and Ken Plummer attempt to highlight the presence of the LGBTQ+ community in both in …show more content…

Sex is scientifically defined as the biological differences found between human beings.Offering this definition Stein and Plummer are able to pronounce the ideology of many people in society as well as scholars. This is an ideology that highlights the reasons why people on a large scale would define these categories as deviant or problematized. Stein and Plummer remark that “Such studies tend to replicate social divisions,implicitly reasserting the exotica of difference ”(pg.179). In context clearly illustrates the need of people to recognize and judge the abnormalities that have not been normalized by society. Some of these could include a woman being judged or shamed for using the bathroom in an exclusivley ladies restroom without having or having been born with female anatomy. Consequently, leading to a point of disagreement among Sociologists this can be found in the basic definition of gender that is provided in mainstream society. Gender is said to be the physical, behavioral, and personality traits that a group considers “normal” for its male and female members. Allowing for this very dichotomous view Stein and Plummer state that “the lesbian continuum was highly influential in reexamining the relationship between gender and sexuality’(pg.180) going further they are able to correlate the sex roles of lesbians to the medicalization of gender. In saying this Sociology and society have assigned the roles of gender to fit the two socially constructed and distinct binary categories; Highlighting the need for for gender to be redefined in the educational and social worlds. There has not been an occurrence that has taken place that is large enough to affect both the educational and social world. Breaking the barrier to allow Stein and Plummer to Inadvertently address the question, What can be defined as

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