Sex And Gender Flashcards
What is gender?
Notions about the expected roles
What is sex?
Either male or female
Difference between sex and gender?
The amount of biology role that is used.
What is gender identity?
how people think, feel and talk about themselves in terms of gender
What is gender role?
The behavioural aspects of gender
What is gender stereotype?
men/women as same relation to a particular trait or characteristic
What is sex role stereotypes?
Simplistic ideas about the appropriateness of particular behaviour from men and women
What is the Arapesh? (Cultural variations)
Both boys & girls were raised to be gentle and loving, child-bearing was highly valued
What is the mundugumor? (Cultural variations)
Women and men hated the idea of pregnancy
What is the tchambuli? (Cultural variations)
Men were regarded as emotional and unfit and spent a lot of time on their appearance whereas women took care of food
Does the Buss et al (1990) say there is a nature element that women want someone to protect them but men need someone to reproduce with?
Yes
1 strength- does the psychodynamic approach agree that there are innate elements to gender & that these are related to sexual development of males and females?
Yes
2 weaknesses? One for SLT & one for cognitive?
1- SLT thinks that gender is a product of nature and would argue that mean and women display a range of gender-related behaviours depending on learning experience.
2- cognitive would argue that we have to understand the thought processes behind gender development and would accuse the biological approach of being too deterministic.
Is money and erhardt about the circumcision that went wrong (Bruce/Brian case study)
Yes
What is the Batista family study about?
Despite being raise as a female happily adjusted to make gender role backing up importance of biology.
