Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 76: Nondisjunction, Cisgender, Spermatogonium
2 Oct 2016
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Demographic Structure of Society – Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
• Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation are interconnected and important individually. All
independent of each other.
• Media often portrays gender as binary – female vs. male Also portrays sexual orientation as
binary – you like men or you like women.
• Hoee, thee’s a oe tha 2 optios. Thee ae 5 osideatios he eaiig pesos
gender and sexual orientation:
o Biological – sex (male/female – the biological characteristics) person is born with. Are
they male or female? (XY sex Chromosome, or XX sex chromosome). (More below)
o Identity -gender (masculine/feminine – behaviors, roles, activities in society ) they
identify as (More below)
o Expression - gender they express (More below)
o Attraction - gede the’e oatiall attated to Moe elo
o Fornication - gede the’e seuall attated to Moe elo
o All of the above are a part of a person’s identity and don’t need to align
o Sex: Biological factor. XX or XY sex chromosome. Not binary. There are intersex people
have 1 or 3+, so express different sex characteristics. Some intersex characteristics are
born with both male and female characteristics due to unusual hormone levels.
▪ More random detail on gender (not included in KA videos)
▪ (XXY – Kleifelte’s o XO- Turners Syndrome (can occur in Meiosis I non-
disjunction in spermatogonium and when that joins with a normal egg) [Sperm
has XY or O]
▪ Meiosis II nondisjunction can result in spermatognium becoming spermatids
with XX and or YY or O chromosomes, creating children that are XXX (triple X,
super-females) or XYY (Jacobs syndrome – super males) or XO(turners
syndrome) if fertilized with normal egg.
▪ Kleinfelters is male that are female like, Turners = females that are short
o Gender – a social construction theory that states that gender it is not a fixed or
innate fact, but instead it varies across time and place. Categories of
gender are fluid and subject to social process of meaning-making. Has
two main factors – gender identity and expression. Many possible combinations, ex.
someone biological male and identify as male (cis-gender- same biological sex and
gender identity), or identify as female (trans-gender – biological sex and gender identity
do’t ath. Cis-gender male can express a socially male (abide by strict male
guidelines) or female appearance (follow social female guidelines like wearing
dresses/makeup). Same options for biologically female and intersex people.
▪ Gender also not binary some people are gender queer do’t idetif as eithe
male or female), and can present (gender expression) as gender queer or
male/female.
• Agender – rejecting gender categories
• Gender fluid – moving across genders
• Nonbinary – not identifying w/ any specific gender
• Third gender – cultures that recognize non-binary gender
▪ Western world – you are born male or female and from moment you are born
(and sometimes even earlier) society gives them messages (gender roles –
proper behaviors, attitudes, activities of males and females) on how should they
behave and think. Boys should be masculine and females should be feminine.
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