SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Role, Symbolic Interactionism, Human Capital
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Sex and gender can be powerful predictors of behaviour. Sex and gender can influence your life chances. Belonging to one gender or another can predict education, occupation, income, health, voting patterns, whether you do the housework or commit a crime, etc. Gender refers to differences in behavior resulting from socialization. Males refer to masculine behaviour while women refer to feminine behaviour. One"s biological gender does not always correspond to their gender identity. A small number of individual"s biological gender does not match their gender identity. They are sexually attarcted to individuals who are of a different biological sex. Some individuals are sexually attracted to the same biological sex or both; the same and different biological sex. Some of these individuals expereince discrimination; homophobia. Some are not sexually attracted to anyone; asexual. As we grow up we learn that each gender has a specific gender role.
