Sex Gender Flashcards
The anatomical, physical, and genetic characteristics associated with being male or female.
Sex
constant across time and across culture
Sec
The roles, attitudes, and values assigned by culture and society to men and women
Gender
Changes across time and across cultures
Gender
person’s internal sense of being male, female, or something else.
Gender identity
The way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice,
or body characteristics
Gender expression
enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, an/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes.
Sexual orientation
Changes along a continuum, from exclusive attraction to the other sex to
exclusive attraction to the same sex
Sexual orientation
Regardless of time place
Sex
Time and placebound
Gender
role which male or female assumes because of basic physiological or anatomical differences
Sex role
belief in biological sex as the necessary and sole cause of behavioral differences in gender roles.
Biological determinism
persons/things seeming
to conform to heavy accepted types just like sec role stereotypes as rigidly held and overly simplified beliefs that females/males possess distinct and similar psychological traits and characteristics
Sex role stereotype
activities which are considered appropriate and acceptable for boys or girls; men or women.
Gender role
Part of social norm
Gender
