Chapter 2 Lecture Flashcards
Where do our ideas about the gender binary come from?
Reinforced through socialization through parents, media, peers. Every part of our socialization has to do with gender.
Why did we come up with the term “opposite sex” rather than “other sex?”
17th century europeans and early north americans believed in superiority/inferiority of people- women were inferior because their penises and testicles were turned inside out.
Why is the term opposite not considered to be accurate?
Suggests that what one sex is, the other is not, when in fact male and female anatomies have similarities and develop from the same fetal tissue.
What is the personal exception theory?
Categorization in a binary reults in stereotyping, however many of us don’t personally believe that we are part of these binaries and are exceptions and that this is personally okay.
What is gender identity?
Who we feel we are in the world
What is gender expression?
How we communicate our gender identity.
What is gender fluidity?
Changing your gender identity as you evolve.
What percentage of gen z is familiar with gender neutral pronouns?
35%
What is cisgender?
The 90%- male and female bodied individuals who identify and express themselves as men and women.
How big are physical differences between men and women really?
Lots of overlap on areas of physical difference
What is an ideology?
Set of ideas widely shared by members of a society that guides identities, behaviours, and institutions
What is a gender ideology?
Widely shared beliefs about how men and women are, should be, or should behave etc
What arthe nadleehi?
A fifth gender in the Navajo community that is gender fluid.
What does gender signify in sociology?
A verb to explain the process by which something is coded as masculine/feminine. We apply these labels to activities, objects, and ideas.
What is associative memory?
Cells and brain processes that transmit information and make literal connections so the some ideas are associated with others in our minds.
What can associative memory cause us to do?
Gendering. Putting gender on certain items that do not need to be gendered.
What are gender binary glasses?
Seeing the world the way others do through reinforcing the binary. Use these glasses to gender the world and to gain cultural competence.
What is the idea of cultural competence?
Familiarity and facility with how members of a society typically think and behave.
What are stereotypes?
Imbedded, oversimplified, fixed, and distorted ideas about categories of people. Constrains our worldview.
