Gender Flashcards
Secondary sex characteristics
Physical traits that identify an individual’s sex
Sex
The biological and anatomical differences between male and females
Gender
Culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with feminist and masculinity.
Gender role
Attitudes behavior activities socially defined as appropriate for each sex. Learned through socialization process
Gender identity
Perception of self. 18months -3 years. Sociology stressed that this identity derives from social interaction and heavily gendered
Gendered institutions
When society is structured in gendered ways
Gender belief system
Ideas regarding valid gender attributes in a society
Legitimized by culture ex: religion education norms and values
Women and men typical seen as
Men: strong rational dominant independent little care for appearance
Women: weak emotional nurturing dependent care for appearance
Sexism
The subordination of one sex usually female based on the assumed superiority of the other sex
Patriarchy
Hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural political and economic controlled by men
Three factors for determining patriarchy or matriarchy
How a society gains the basic necessity of life
Supply of and demand for labor
Extent labor is comparable with child bearing
Asexual
Absence of sexual desire toward either sex
Industrial society
One in which factory production has replaced agriculture as the major form or economic activity.
In North America it created a goat between the non paid work for women at home and the paid workers
