Chapter 3-2 Flashcards
Refers to the lifelong process of learning to become a member of the social world, beginning at birth and continuing until death. It is a lifelong experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture.
Socialization
It is the process of internalizing societies values in order to adapt to one’s culture. It influences how people behave as males and females in the society.
Socialization
It encompasses the process of learning society’s gender roles and their advantages and limitations.
Gender socialization
How much personality is determined by our biological inheritance.
The Role of Nature
How much personality is determined by social-cultural environment.
The Role of Nurture
Is perhaps the most important agent of socialization for children. Parents values and behavior patterns profoundly influenced those of their daughters and sons.
Family
Also help socialize us and may even induce us to violate social norms. However, they generally only affect short term interest unlike the family, which has long term influence.
Peer
They teach a set of expectations about the work, profession, or occupations we will follow when we mature. They have the formal responsibility of importing knowledge in those disciplines which are most central to adult functioning in our society.
School
At the ________, a person meets people of different age groups and belonging to different social and cultural backgrounds.
Workplace
An agent of socialization which influence our political views; or taste in popular culture; our views of women, people of color, and gays and many other beliefs and practices.
Mass Media
An agent of socialization which also uphold gender norms and contribute to their enforcement through socialization. It fosters is shared set of socialized values that are passed on through society.
Church
A number of roles attached to a single status
Role set
Occurs when incompatible demands are built into a single status that a person occupies such as a woman whose roles include full time employee, mother, wife, caregiver for an elderly parent, and community volunteer.
Role conflict
Refers to the stress when for any number of reasons, an individual cannot meet the demands of their social roles.
Role Strain
Occurs when people disengage from social roles that have been central to their identity
Role exit
It is the process of learning and internalizing culturally approved ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving according to one’s gender.
Gender Role Socialization
Are fixed, unquestioned beliefs, or images we carry in the back of our minds about women and men.
Gender Stereotypes
Refers to any situation where a person is denied and opportunity or misjudged solely on the basis of their sex. When someone is treated unequally or disadvantageously based on their gender but not necessarily in a sexual nature.
Gender Discrimination
A process in child’s learning of gender bias in the family where people treat boys and girls differently.
Manipulation
People will direct children’s attention to gender appropriate objects exemplified by toys.
Canalization
Words used to tell children what they are
Verbal Appellation
Children are familiarized with gender appropriate task
Activity Exposure
_____________ to communicate thoughts or ideas in the most pervasive institution of socialization.
Language
Are the most effective socializing agent subtle and often subconscious way plus long amount of time people exposed themselves to media.
Mass Media
Is an inaccurate view or opinion that many people hold about something or a group of people based solely or largely on the way they appear to others.
Stereotype
A kind of stereotype which you deliberately think about
Explicit
A kind of stereotype where a person is unaware of their stereotypical outlook
Implicit
Unjustified or incorrect attitude towards an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group. It represents our emotional response upon learning of a person’s membership to a specific group like age, skin color, race, disabilities, generation, nationality, even religion, sex, sexual expression, gender expression and so on.
Prejudice
When one individual or group is treated less favorably than another due to a person’s or group’s background or specific personal characteristics.
Discrimination
The process which forces women out into the periphery of economic and social life; on the periphery of decision making, as well as diminishing the value of the activities in which they contribute to the national development process.
Marginalization
Is the institutionalized domination by men and women
Subordination
Involvement in the three spheres of work: reproduction, production, and community work.
Multiple Burden
Fixed, unquestioned beliefs or images we carry in the back of our minds about men and women
Gender Stereotypes
Acts of installing fear and inflicting pain with the aim to injure, or abuse a person usually women using intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, minimizing, denying, and blaming, using their children, using male privilege, using economic abuse, using coercion and threats.
Violence against women
The ability to recognize gender issues.
Gender Sensitivity
