PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mental Disorder, Kin Selection, Gender Variance

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Jennifer Bossio

Document Summary

Gender: socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions, and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people. It influences how people perceive themselves and each other, how they act and interact, and distribution of power and resources in society. Gender is usually conceptualized as a binary (girl/woman and boy/man) yet there is considerable diversity in how individuals and groups understand, experience, and express it. Sex: set of biological attributes in humans and animals. Primarily associated with physical and physiological features including sex chromosomes, gene expression, hormones levels and function, and reproductive anatomy. Sex is usually categorized as female or male but there is variation in biological attributes that comprise sex and how those attributes are expressed. Ge(cid:374)der ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455): o(cid:374)e"s se(cid:374)se of (cid:373)ale(cid:374)ess or fe(cid:373)ale(cid:374)ess, or gradatio(cid:374)s of (cid:271)oth. Gender role: behaving in a way that it typical of your gender; enactment of gender stereotypes, gender schemas, or doing gender.