Lecture #3 Gender

Question 1

Traditional View of Gender =

Answer 1

Objectivity

Question 2

Social Role View of Gender =

Answer 2

Inter-subjectivity

Question 3

Self-Identification View of Gender

Answer 3

Subjectivity

Question 4

What is gender?

Answer 4

A belief system used to
construct categories based on the
concepts of “masculinity” and
“femininity”

Question 5

Can anything be “gendered?”

Answer 5

Anything can be “gendered” by
attributing masculine or feminine
characteristics to it!

Question 6

ideas about what counts as masculine or feminine vary across historical time and cultural space! Objective? Subjective? or Intersubjective?

Answer 6

Intersubjective ideas/views!

Question 7

Bodies can be sexed, they can also be…

Answer 7

Gendered!

Question 8

Gendered =

Answer 8

Masculine and Feminine

Question 9

When we gender bodies we create…

Answer 9

gendered categories of
personhood

Question 10

Culturally prescribed rules associated with how individuals that are perceived to occupy a particular gendered category of personhood should behave IS CALLED WHAT

Answer 10

Gender Role Expectations

Question 11

What is Gender Role Enactment/Presentation?

Answer 11

The constellation of masculine and feminine behaviours that individuals manifest

Question 12

What are gender differences

Answer 12

Average group differences in gender role enactment.
These stem from differences in gender role expectations. Gender differences come primarily from the expectations of society.

Question 13

• There are differences in personality, cognition and behavior that exist, on average, between males and females independent of any post-natal socialization that relates to gender role expectations

Answer 13

Psycho-Behavioural Sex Differences

Question 14

In Connellans study, results showed that the male infants showed a stronger interest in the;

Answer 14

physical-mechanical mobile.

Question 15

In Connellans study, results showed that the female infants showed a stronger interest in the;

Answer 15

female infants showed a stronger interest in the
face.

Question 16

What is the main conclusion of Connenllans study?

Answer 16

The results of this research clearly demonstrate that sex differences are in part biological in
origin.

Question 17

Some psycho-behavioral sex differences do not originate as a result of gender role expectations, rather they precede such socialization. (What Connenllans study indicates).