Lecture 9 Flashcards
Gender and Inequality
what are achieved statuses?
statuses an individual earns through effort
what is social location?
a combination of factors like gender, age, and race that influence how we interpret the world
what are ascribed statuses?
statuses assigned at birth
what are master statuses?
statuses that dominate other statuses
what is verstehen?
putting yourself in other people’s shoes
what is standpoint theory?
how knowledge stems form ones social position
what does epistemology argue?
argues knowledge is always socially situated
what does the matrix of oppression mean?
combination of being both female and black give a unique experience of discrimination
what is the ideal type?
finding commonalities between things in the same category to form the ideal representation of that category
what is a feminist?
one who believed in equal treatment for both sexes
what is patriarchy?
system of male domination in society
what is gender?
a socially constructed idea of mainly males and females
what is sex?
a personal biological classification of male, female or intersex
what is sexuality?
who a person is sexually attracted to
what does non-binary mean?
a person who does not identify as male or female and does not fit in the gender binary specturm
what is a cisgender person?
a person sexually matches theirs at birth
what is gender expression?
a way a person present themselves in terms of gender
what is gender identity?
a persons internal experience of gender
what is a gender role?
a socially constructed idea of how a particular gender should behave
what is agender?
not having a gender identity or having a neutral identity
what is polygender?
when someone adopts the traits of both genders
what is asexual?
when a person has sexual attraction to no one
what is Xenogender?
a non-binary gender not known to human understanding yet
what is a lexical gap?
when there is no word for something in a particular language
