{"id":216,"date":"2016-05-01T01:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T01:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introductiontosociology-waymaker\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=216"},"modified":"2016-07-04T19:24:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T19:24:19","slug":"outcome-inequality-and-sexual-orientation","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/chapter\/outcome-inequality-and-sexual-orientation\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Sexual Attitudes and Practices","rendered":"Outcome: Sexual Attitudes and Practices"},"content":{"raw":"<h2 class=\"p1\">Explain sexual attitudes and practices<\/h2>\r\nWhen studying sex and sexuality, sociologists focus their attention on sexual attitudes and practices, not on physiology or anatomy. Norms regarding gender and sexuality vary across cultures. In general, the United States tends to be fairly conservative in its sexual attitudes. 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In general, the United States tends to be fairly conservative in its sexual attitudes. Read this section to learn more about these attitudes and the theories surrounding sexual behavior.<\/p>\n<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand different attitudes associated with sex and sexuality<\/li>\n<li>Discuss theoretical perspectives on sex and sexuality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learning Activities<\/h3>\n<p>The learning activities for this section include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading: Sex and Sexuality<\/li>\n<li>Reading: Theoretical Perspectives on Sex<\/li>\n<li>Self-Check:\u00a0Sexual Attitudes and Preferences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take time to review and reflect on each of these activities in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-216\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Objectives and Activities. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Sociology 2e. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: OpenStax CNX. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e\">http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d@3.49<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Objectives and Activities\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Sociology 2e\",\"author\":\"OpenStax CNX\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d@3.49\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"b7d11a3d-008c-41dd-8919-a4ebbbf2c633","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-216","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":579,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/216\/revisions\/2087"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/579"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/216\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}