ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Margaret Mead, Samoan Culture, Arapesh Languages
1 Apr 2018
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A person"s perception of having a particular gender, which may or may not gender identity: correspond with their birth sex. Gender is a term that refers to social or cultural distinctions and roles associated with being male or female. Gender identity is the extent to which one identifies as being either masculine or feminine (diamond, As gender is such a primary dimension of identity, socialization, institutional participation, and life chances, sociologists refer to it as a core status. For example, the anthropologist margaret mead s cross cultural research in. New guinea, in the 1930s, was groundbreaking in its demonstration that cultures differ markedly in the ways that they perceive the gender. Temperments of men and women; i. e. , their masculinity and femininity (mead, 1963). Unlike the qualities that defined masculinity and femininity in north america at the time, she saw both genders among the arapesh as sensitive, gentle, cooperative, and passive, whereas among the.
