Police Foundations SOC225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Inequality, Grand Theft Auto Iii, Gender Role
4 Jun 2016
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What makes us male or female: your sex is biological, your gender is sociological, your gender identity is your identification with a particular sex biologically, sociologically and psychologically. When you act according to widely shared expectations about how males or females are supposed to act, you adopt a gender role. Gender is part of our biological make-up and society must reinforce these tendencies (functionalism) Gender is determined by social factors and can be changed. (conflict, feminist and. How do we learn our gender roles: socialization. Some people resist/reject gender roles forced on them by way of their biological sex. Negative sanctions are applied to conform or punish them. Society is often eager to use emotional and physical violence to enforce gender roles. Gender gap exists between men and women in the paid labour force. Gender inequality encourages sexual harassment and rape.
