GENDER AND SOCIETY

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It is simply defined as a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by common interest and may have distinctive culture and institutions.

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SOCIETY

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Is an essential pre-requisite of society. The sense of likeness was focused in early society on kinships that is real or supposed blood relationships

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Society means likeness

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also implies differences, and it depends on the latter as much as on likeness of all people were exactly alike, their social relationships would become very much limited.

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Society also implies difference

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Family, the first society with which we all are closely associated, is based on the biological interdependence of the sexes.

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Inter – dependence

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Without co-operation no society can exist. Unless, people cooperate with each other, they cannot live a happy life

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Cooperation

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Former sociologists appreciate the process of socialization to survive in the society

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Historical Evidence

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makes society the creation of God. Just as God created all the animals and inanimate objects of this world, so he created the society as well.

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Divine right theory

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views society as a contrivance deliberately set up by men for certain ends. According to this theory, all men were born free and equal. Individual precedes society.

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Social contract theory

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Individual is a living organism; the various system must coordinate to maintain his living functions.

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Organic theory

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facilitates collective thinking, collective acting each group exhibits their own goals.

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Group mind theory

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generally correct explanation of the origin of society. According to it society is not a make but a growth. It is the result of a gradual evolution.

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Evolutionary theory

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makes society the result of superior physical force. According to this theory, the society originated in the subjugation of the weaker by the stronger.

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Force theory

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Originally, the family consisted of a man, his wife and children. The father was the head of the family and his control and authority was complete in all respects over all its members

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Patriarchal and Matriarchal theories

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The simplest form of human society

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BAND

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A group of people united by kinship and descent, which is defined by perceived descent from a common ancestor.

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CLAN

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Consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states, though some modern theorists hold that “contemporary” tribes can only be understood in terms of their relationship to state.

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TRIBE

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Is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or lineage

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ETHNIC GROUP

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Characterized by pervasive inequality of peoples and centralization of authority.

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CHIEFDOM

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is a political association with effective dominion over a geographic area.

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STATE

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relies heavily on hunting wild animals and gathering food for its survival.

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Hunters and Gatherers societies

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refers to any form of society whose main subsistence comes from tending flocks and herds of domesticated animals.

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Pastoral societies

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is a social system based on horticulture, a mode of production in which digging sticks are used to cultivate small gardens

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Horticultural societies

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focuses on mode of production primarily on agriculture and production of
large fields.

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Agricultural societies

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society is a system in which large number of labor and machinery is involved in production of goods and services.

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Industrial societies

Question 25

is the stage of society’s development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy.

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Post-industrial societies

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it is a concept that describes how societies determine and manage sex categories; the cultural meanings attached to men and women‘s roles; and how individuals understand their identities including, but not limited to, being a man, woman, transgender, intersex, gender queer and other gender positions.

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GENDER

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biological traits that societies use to assign people into the category of either male or female, whether it be through a focus on chromosomes, genitalia or some other physical ascription.

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SEX

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examines how society influences our understandings and perception of differences between masculinity (what society deems appropriate behavior for a “man”) and femininity (what society deems appropriate behavior for a “woman”).

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SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Question 29

it is about sexual attraction, sexual practices and identity. Just as sex and gender don‘t always align, neither does gender and sexuality.

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Sexuality

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is a term used when individuals do not feel sexual attraction.

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Asexuality

Question 31

is designed to help us understand gender, sex and
attraction sometimes referred to as ‘sexuality’).

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The Gender Unicorn

Question 32

is inside us; it‘s how we feel about our own gender.

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Gender identity

Question 33

is what‘s visible about your gender to other people.

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GENDER EXPRESSION

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A generalized view or preconception about attributes or characteristics that are ought to be possessed by members of a particular social group or the roles that are or should be performed by, members of a particular group.

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STEREOTYPE

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It is a generalized view or preconception about attributes, or characteristics that are ought to be possessed by women and men or the roles that are or should be performed by men and women.

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Gender Stereotype

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Is the practice of ascribing to an individual woman or man specific attributes, characteristics, or roles by reason only of her or his membership in the social group of women or men.

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Gender Stereotyping