SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Identity, Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinity
Document Summary
The social institution of gender sees men and women as different. There is an increased number of women in traditionally male dominated jobs (policing, corrections, engineering, medicine, etc. ) Men still have more power and make more money than women. Sex category: the assignment of a label assigned based on genitalia at birth. Gender identity: how you see your self, your sense of your own gendered self. Gendered marital and procreative status: men can"t have children but women can. Gendered sexual orientation: how you express yourself and how you orientate yourself towards others. Gendered personality: internal mechanisms of how you see your self and how you behave. Gendered processes: we are taught the process of what it means to be a man or a woman. Gender beliefs: we can resist traditional dominant gender codes of society. How we define criminality, now we sanction behaviour how we respond to victimization is all gendered.
