GENSOC Flashcards
Patriarchy is from the Greek word means?
Patriarkhes
What century/ centuries was mark by significant shifts in societal attitudes towards gender and sexuality?
20th Century
It is a system based on the control and oppression of women wherein they are perceived to be the weaker sex.
Patriarchy
People who have little or no interest in having sex with others
B. Asexual
It is a term that include a variety of sexual identities and gender identities that are anything other than straight and cisgender.
Queer
These laws are legal statutes, regulations, or policies that reinforce or uphold heteronormativity—the societal assumption and privileging of heterosexuality as the normative or default sexual orientation. These laws can explicitly or implicitly discriminate against individuals who do not conform to heterosexual norms.
HETERONORMATIVE LAWS
This patriarchy preceded private property; the original and basic contradiction is between the sexes and not between the economic classes. They consider all women to be a class.
RADICAL FEMINIST
This are widely held beliefs or assumptions about the characteristics, roles, and behaviors deemed appropriate for individuals based on their gender. This are one sided and exaggerated images of men and women which are deployed repeatedly in everyday lives.
GENDER STEREOTYPES
This is associated with femaleness, constructed and reproduced through individual practices and behaviors in their daily lives.
FEMININITY
This is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people especially on the ground of race, age or sex.
DISCRIMINATION
This is the socio-cultural interpretation of sex
GENDER
7.This refers to the state of existing on the margins or boundaries of traditional gender categories. These individuals may identify with or experience aspects of multiple genders simultaneously or may feel a sense of ambiguity or fluidity in their gender identity.
NONBINARY
This refers to individual whose gender identity aligns with sex they were assigned at birth. For example, someone who was assigned female at birth and identifies as a woman is considered this individual.
CISGENDER
This is an umbrella term sometimes used by LGBTQIA+ people to refer to the entire LGBTQIA+ community.
QUEER
This is an individual who does not identify with any gender.
AGENDER
Patriarchy is viewed by most sociologists as a social construct and not as a biological phenomenon. (T/F)
TRUE
During the 19th and late 20th century, first wave feminism spread the western countries as women demanded for their right to vote or participate in elections and to be able to legally own property. (T/F)
FALSE (early)
Simone de Beauvoir is a German philosopher and sociologist who argues that patriarchy came about when people started having private property instead of a communal living. (T/F)
FALSE (Friedrich Engels)
In France, Friedrich Engels wrote book titled “The Second Sex” in 1949. It outlined how the patriarchal society disadvantaged women by slowly raising her into submission and hindering their productivity and happiness by relegating them to house cleaning. (T/F)
FALSE (Simone de Beauvoir)
Le Mouvement de Liberation des Femmesor the women’s liberation movement was formed in Europe and they sought the right to education, right to work, and right to vote in the 1980’s. (T/F)
FALSE (1940)
This is a tightly coiled tube located at the back of the testes. It serves as a storage and maturation site for sperm as they move from the testes to the vans deferens.
EPIDIDYMIS
This is a long, muscular tube that carries sperm from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct. It also serves as a passageway for sperm during ejaculation.
VAS DEFERENS
This is a tube that runs through the penis and carries urine and semen out of the body.
URETHRA
This is an external part of a male genitals; this is also a sac of skin and muscle that holds and protects the testicles.
SCROTUM
