Gender Flashcards

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Secondary sex characteristics

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Physical traits that identify an individual’s sex

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Sex

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The biological and anatomical differences between male and females

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Gender

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Culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with feminist and masculinity.

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Gender role

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Attitudes behavior activities socially defined as appropriate for each sex. Learned through socialization process

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Gender identity

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Perception of self. 18months -3 years. Sociology stressed that this identity derives from social interaction and heavily gendered

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Gendered institutions

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When society is structured in gendered ways

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Gender belief system

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Ideas regarding valid gender attributes in a society

Legitimized by culture ex: religion education norms and values

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Women and men typical seen as

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Men: strong rational dominant independent little care for appearance
Women: weak emotional nurturing dependent care for appearance

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Sexism

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The subordination of one sex usually female based on the assumed superiority of the other sex

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Patriarchy

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Hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural political and economic controlled by men

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Three factors for determining patriarchy or matriarchy

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How a society gains the basic necessity of life
Supply of and demand for labor
Extent labor is comparable with child bearing

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Asexual

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Absence of sexual desire toward either sex

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Industrial society

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One in which factory production has replaced agriculture as the major form or economic activity.
In North America it created a goat between the non paid work for women at home and the paid workers

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