Chapter 7 - Gender & Sexuality

Question 1

Auxiliary traits

Answer 1

Characteristics that are presumed to accompany a specific master status

Question 2

Looking-glass self (Interactionist Perspective)

Answer 2

The sense of ourselves that we develop based on our perceptions of how others view us

Question 3

What are the 3 components to the looking-glass self?

Answer 3

1) we imagine how we how we appear to others
2) we imagine how they judge that appearance
3) we incorporate the perceived judgments of others into our own sense of self

Question 4

Recidivism

Answer 4

Committing further crimes after having been convicted of a crime

Question 5

Sex

Answer 5

Biological characteristics that include sex chromosomes, primary sex characteristics, and secondary characteristics

Question 6

Dualism

Answer 6

A contrast between two opposing categories

Question 7

Gender

Answer 7

The expected, and actual thoughts, feelings, and behaviours associated with a particular sex, within a certain culture, at a given point in history

Question 8

Femininity

Answer 8

The thoughts, feelings, and behaviours associated with being female

Question 9

Masculinity

Answer 9

The thoughts, feelings, and behaviours associated with being male

Question 10

Heterosexuality

Answer 10

Sexual attraction to members of the opposite sex

Question 11

Homosexuality

Answer 11

Sexual attraction to members of the same sex

Question 12

Intersexed

Answer 12

A person whose physical sex characteristics fall outside the boundaries of the dualism of male/female

Question 13

Bisexuality

Answer 13

Sexual attraction to both males and females

Question 14

Sexual script

Answer 14

The framework that we use to understand our own sexuality and that guides our sexual lives

Question 15

What are the three distinctive parts of our sexual scripts?

Answer 15

1) intrapsychic scripts
2) interpersonal scripts
3) cultural scenario

Question 16

Intrapsychic script

Answer 16

The private world of our fantasies and desires, not all of which you will necessarily act upon in life

Question 17

Interpersonal script

Answer 17

Emerge from our interactions with others - what we have learned from particular people in our lives about appropriate or inappropriate sexuality

Question 18

Cultural scenarios

Answer 18

Reflect the larger cultural norms surrounding sexuality

Question 19

Transgendered

Answer 19

Individuals who identify themselves with another sex, and seek to live their lives on that basis

Question 20

Personal-social identity continuum

Answer 20

The range of traits you possess that emphasize the manner in which you see yourself as a unique individual on one end and those which underscore your membership in a group on the other end