Question

A surgeon recommends surgery to make the genitals of an intersex infant conform to an ideal of normal genitalia. a sociologist might view the doctor's recommendation as a result of

Answer 1

A sociologist might view the doctor’s recommendation as a result of the belief in a binary sex system. The doctors must often make decisions based on what is immediately in front of them and on all that they themselves have been taught about sex, sexuality and gender. The social norm about sex and gender is built around a binary sex system and so it is not surprising that a doctor might recommend choices based on that perspective.

Answer 2

Base on the given scenario, a sociologist might view the doctor’s recommendation as a result of belief in a binary sex system of which the social norm is about in terms of topics related with the gender and sex of humans and the doctors recommendations are all because of their beliefs and perspectives that they had acquire.