Midterm Study Guide 1 Flashcards
(23 cards)
Patterns of gender
~socially constructing gender
Ex. Media, expectations to follow
~Patterns:regularities in the way the world works
~gaining a deeper understanding of the world
Gender Socialization/agents of socialization
~How we learn the values, expectations, and practices of the culture.
~people are NOT blank slates upon which rules are written
~soc is complex and interconnected process
~Agents:peers, teachers, parents, sports, institutions, etc.
- Trading power for patronage
2. Altercasting
- Giving up power to be taken care of.
2. She is put in the role of being dependent instead of independent.
- Sex
- Sex category
- Gender
- Socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as male and female.
- The category males and females are put into based on identifying characteristics. Ex: transgendered
- The activity managing situated conduct in light of membership in a sex category-the actions, behaviors, mannerisms, language, etc. appropriate for the sex category.
- Tranvestite
- Transgender
- Transsexual
- A person (usually a man) dressing in clothes appropriate for opposite gender.
- Persons self identity does not conform to societal gender parameters.
- Person who feels emotionally and psychologically that they belong to the opposite sex.
Separate and different approach
~Aka “race-sex” analogy
A. You add (+) race to category
B. Experience of gender will be the same/ you add gender
Additive approach
Race add (+) gender to it or class
Interaction approach
~aka “prismatic” or “intersectional interactions”
- Hegemonic masculinity
2. Emphasized femininity
- Is the dominant way that men should be men
2. It is the way or standard a female should be a female or feminine
Culture
~Ex. Technology, clothes (the way you dress), community, food, believes, language, religion, etc.
~everything that is created and shared by a group/believes and practices
Ethnocentrism
~we “see what we believe” - we’re likely to misinterpret patterns that vary from our own experiences.
Vanatinai
~egalitarian practices ~means of production:products of labor ~land commonly held ~male superiority lacking ~generosity valued ~autonomy
Gender transgressions
Displays of inappropriate gender behavior
Gender ideology
~collective decision-making ~mortuary feasts/marriages ~networks of deceased, the father, spouse ~conflict resolved ~women leave/movement free
- Rape and culture
2. The U.S. And the Gerai
1. ~Rape tantamount to death
~product of difference rooted in patriarchy
~W/M have difference in bodies
~rape act feminized women
~western cultures sexed body image
2. ~gender, sex and procreation in Gerai
~status of men
~no dichotomy
~men brave-know law
~women persistent-enduringEthnography
~integrates both “doing gender” and intersectional approaches
Testosterone and aggression relationship
Correlation does NOT prove causation and aggressive behavior causes testosterone secretion to increase
Gender bending and its effect
~Misatributtion:taken to be a female when your a male or vise versa
~consequences of misidentification
Intersexed
~medical intervention not for health
~not a protection or elimination of stigma -maintains social order
~focus on personal troubles-not social issue
~deviance is created socially-judgments, beliefs, actions
~definition of “normal” culturally specific
Individual approach to gender
~Socialization, internalization
~identity work
~construction of self
Interactional approach to gender
~cultural expectations
~status expectations, cognitive bias, othering
~trading power for patronage
~alter casting
Institutional Approach to gender
~organizational practices,
~legal regulations
~distribution of resources
~ideology
Prismatic approach
~power explains interaction of influence
~the power of any single socially constructed identity is related to all other categories
