Exsam 1

Question 0

Sex

Answer 0

Biological distinction, male or female, based on chromosomes, genitals

Question 1

Gender

Answer 1

Refers to the meanings a culture attaches to those biological differences

Question 2

Gender neutrality

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Assumption that gender does not matter or that we are gender less, which results in the gender order being reproduced

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Agents of socialization

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Individuals and institutions that teach us the norms society

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Differential Socialization

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Teaching boys and girls/men and women different cultural norms, practices, and means of self expression

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Biological essentialism

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Belief that boys and girls/ men and women are different due to their different genetic make up and hormone compositions

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Matrilinearly

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Tracing family decent through a mothers bloodlines/ family

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Binary

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A concept or term defined by its opposite; as with masculinity and femininity

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Sex segregation

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Separation of men and women following industrialization; creating ideology of “separate spheres” for men and women.

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Sexual division of labor

Answer 9

Labor allocated on the basis of gender resulting in men and women different types of jobs

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Deceptive distinctions

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Differences that appear to be based on gender that are actually due to something else like social class or race

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Confirmation bias

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When a single case of a few cases of the expected behavior confirm a belief, especially when the behavior his attention-getting or widely reported

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Primary sex characteristics

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Sex characteristics present at birth

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Secondary sex characteristics

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Sex characteristics that develop at puberty

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Transgendered

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A person whose gender does not correspond with that typically associated with their biological sex

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Transsexual

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Person who undergoes medical treatment in order to alter or change sex organs/biological sex

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Transvestite

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Person who dresses in clothes not associated with their gender, to appear as a different gender

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Hermaphrodite

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Someone who was born with ambiguous sex characteristic

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Biological determinism

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Arguments that stress the naturalness and an inevitability of our own behaviors

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Emphasized femininity

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Organized around compliance with the gender inequality and is oriented to accommodating the interests and desires of that

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Feminism

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Believe in equal treatment opportunities for women

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Natural selection

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Species adapt to their changing environments; those who adapt well to their environment are preproductively successful, where as those who do not adapt or not

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Sex discrimination

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Treating someone differently on the basis of their actual perceive sex or sexual orientation

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Infanticide

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Killing of newborn baby

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Ethnocentrism

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Seeing your own culture as a center of the world and standard by which other cultures should be Judged

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Gender inversion

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Ideology used in essentialist research on homosexuality, which uses women as the reference point against which gay and straight men are to be measured

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Hegemonic masculinity

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Dominant model of masculinity held as model against which all men are expected to measure themselves

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Hyper masculinity

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Fear and denigration of woman motivate overt and excessive displays of masculinity

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Couvade

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Ritual man whose wives are pregnant, observe the same food taboos as their lives, restrict their ordinary activities, and even seclude themselves during their wives delivery and postpartum.

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Nadle

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Navajo term form third gender, person whose sexy is ambiguous at birth

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Colonization

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More powerful nations take over and exploit less powerful nations

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Purdah

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The requirement that women conceal themselves at all times.

Question 32

Ritualized homosexual

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Sexual interaction between people of the same sex, who do not identify as a homosexual or bisexual, as cultural practice or tradition