CPSY 428 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Role
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Sex: chromosomal/hormonal influences leading to anatomical differences between sexes. Gender: biological sex and all attitudes and behaviors that individual learns from his/her culture. Norms: accepted and expected patterns of behavior and beliefs established formally or informally by a group. Hormones secreted by glands directed by genetic configuration product physical differences. Society defines, prescribes, and reinforces gender role aspect of sexual identity. Every person has 2 sex chromosomes, one inherited from each parent. Transgender/transsexual: he/she feels as if she is actually of opposite gender. Transvestite: person who gains sexual pleasure from dressing like opposite sex. When men/women freer to choose gender roles for themselves, with intimate relationships like marriage, their chances for success and fulfillment increase. Role equity: roles of person fulfills are based on individual strengths and weaknesses rather than on a set of preordained stereotypical differences between the sexes. Androgyny: blending of traits associated with sexes by society.
