Sociology 2239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Honor Killing, Social Inequality, Femininity
22 Feb 2016
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Sex: biological criteria: genitalia criteria at birth: male or female. Gender:o refers to entire array of behaviours and attributes expected of individuals on the basis of being born either female or male: masculinity or femininity. Meaning of gender varies across culture and time: ex, the bugis people of indonesia: five separate genders, gendered colour system (pink vs blue, changing gender roles (cheerleading) Gender roles and gendered systems are changing! Socialization: a process of learning to become a member of society: internalize, legitimate and reproduce. Institutions of socialization: family, media, work, school, etc. or peers. Gendered identities: masculinity: the characteristics of, and appropriate to, the male sex, femininity: the characteristics or, and appropriate, the female sex. Doing gender involves a complex of socially guided perceptual, interactional activities that cast particular pursuits as expressions of masculine and feminine natures. Systems of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress ad exploit women .
