SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Margaret Mead, Gender Role, Arapesh Languages

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

All societies have divided themselves in gender terms. Gender roles: attitudes, behaviours and activities socially defined as appropriate for that. Gender stereotypes: belief that men and women are inherently different by attitudes and. Men: strong, rational, dominant, independent, don"t care for (their own) appearance. Women: weak, emotional, nurturing, dependent, care for (their own) appearance. Masculine and feminine models may vary and change from one culture to another. Margaret mead: if gender is culture, conceptions of what is masculine and feminine will vary from culture to culture. Men and women had remarkably similar attitudes and behaviour. Head hunting tribe, both genders showed typical north american masculine" qualities. They reversed many of our notions of gender. Sex: biological and anatomical differences between males and females. Gender: culturally and socially constructed differences between males and females found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with femininity and masculinity.