sex & gender

Question 1

SEX

Answer 1

The biological categories of classifying humans as male and female.

Question 2

What are PRIMARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS?

Answer 2

The genitals, used to reproduce the human species.

Question 3

What are SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS?

Answer 3

Distinctive physical traits of males and females not directly linked to reproduction.

Question 4

HERMAPHRODITE

Answer 4

A person who possesses both male and female genital organs due to a hormone imbalance before birth.

Question 5

TRANSGENDERS

Answer 5

People who choose to change their sex through surgery, usually from male to female.

Question 6

What is SEXUAL ORIENTATION?

Answer 6

The manner in which people experience sexual arousal and achieve sexual pleasure.

Question 7

What is HETEROSEXUALITY?

Answer 7

When individuals are sexually attracted to the opposite sex.

Question 8

What is HOMOSEXUALITY?

Answer 8

When individuals are sexually attracted to the same sex.

Question 9

What are BISEXUALS?

Answer 9

Individuals who have some combination of heterosexual and homosexual orientation.

Question 10

What is GENDER?

Answer 10

Human traits linked by culture to each sex, which varies across cultures and over time.

Question 11

What were Margaret Mead’s findings in Papua New Guinea?

Answer 11

A. Arapesh: Both males and females were feminine and cooperative.
B. Mundugumur: Both males and females were typically selfish and aggressive.
C. Tchumbuli: Females were dominant and rational, while males were submissive and emotional.

Question 12

FEMINISM

Answer 12

The belief in social inequality of sexes and organized opposition to patriarchy and sexism.

Question 13

What is liberal feminism?

Answer 13

It believes that education is the means to attain equality among sexes.

Question 14

What is socialist feminism?

Answer 14

It identifies gender as the culprit for women’s discrimination and aims to eradicate it.

Question 15

What is radical feminism?

Answer 15

It believes that equal treatment regardless of sex can only be achieved through a social revolution.

Question 16

What does the Socio-Cultural Evolution theory propose?

Answer 16

Advancement in technology can lead to gender equality in society.

Question 17

What does Structural Functionalism explain about gender roles?

Answer 17

Assigning distinctive activities to males and females is a functional strategy for societal survival.

Question 18

How does Social Conflict Analysis view gender stratification?

Answer 18

Society places males in a position of dominance, benefiting them while disadvantaging women.

Question 19

Who linked gender stratification to the development of social classes?

Answer 19

Friedrich Engels, who claimed that capitalism increased male dominance by devaluing women as homemakers.

Question 20

What is Gender Identity?

Answer 20

The way males and females, within their culture, learn to think of themselves.

Question 21

What is Gender Stratification?

Answer 21

The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privileges between the two sexes.

Question 22

matriarchy vs patriarchy

Answer 22

A form of social organization in which females dominate males.

A form of social organization in which males dominate females.

Question 23

What is Sexism?

Answer 23

The belief that one sex is innately superior to the other.