48-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: David Reimer, Marvin Harris, Grammatical Gender

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: 48-101
• Professor: Nakhaie

Document Summary

Gender your sense of being male or female and your playing masculine and feminine roles as defined as appropriate by your culture and society. Sex depends on whether you were born with m/f genitals and genetic program that released male or female hormones to stimulate development of your reproductive system. Sex physiological differences between males and females. Gender specific behaviour, feeling and thinking appropriate to males and females in a culture. Gender identity a person"s identification with, or sense of belonging to, a particular sex. Gender role set of behaviours associated with widely shared expectations about how males or females are supposed to act. Despite sex re-assignment cases, gender is not determined solely by biology but requires social learning. Gender identity not fully developed till age two or three. Once developed, is very difficult to undo even with reconstructive surgery, hormones, and parental and professional pressure (ex.