Week 5 - Chapter 5 Flashcards
What is sex?
The biological status of being male or female
What is gender?
The social categories of male and female, established according to cultural beliefs and practices rather than being the result of biology
What is gender socialization?
The process through which cultures communicate gender expectations to children and adolescents
What is the hymen?
The thin membrane inside a girl’s vagina that is usually broken during her first experience of sexual intercourse. Tested in some cultures before marriage to verify the girl’s virginity
What is communal manhood?
Anthony Rotundo’s term for the norm of manhood in 17th- and 18th-century colonial America, in which the focus of gender expectations for adolescent boys was on preparing to assume adult male role responsibilities in work and marriage.
What is self-made manhood?
Anthony Rotundo’s term for the norm of manhood in 19th- century America, in which males were increasingly expected to become independent from their families in adolescence and emerging adulthood as part of becoming a man.
What is passionate manhood?
Anthony Rotundo’s term for the norm of manhood in the 20th-century United States, in which self-expression and self-enjoyment replaced self-control and self-denial as the paramount virtues young males should learn in the course of becoming a man.
What is the gender intensification hypothesis?
Hypothesis that psychological and behavioral differences between males and females become more pronounced at adolescence because of intensified socialization pressures to conform to culturally prescribed gender roles
What is differential gender socialization?
The term for socializing males and females according to different expectations about what attitudes and behavior are appropriate to each gender.
What is cognitive-developmental theory of gender?
Kohlberg’s theory, based on Piaget’s ideas about cognitive development, asserting that gender is a fundamental way of organizing ideas about the world and that children develop through a predictable series of stages in their understanding of gender.
What is gender identity?
Children’s understanding of themselves as being either male or female, is reached at about age 3
