ANTH 02202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Population Ageing, Gender Role, Vise
11 Nov 2016
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Family-level considerations: childrens labor value, childrens value as old age support for parents, infant and child mortality rates, economic costs of children. Labor requirements: maintain tax base, military, ethnic and regional proportions, providing public services, dealing with population aging. Global-level considerations: religious teachings, international relations and foreign aid (u. s restrictions aid to groups that perform abortions and preference for abstinence programs) Gender role- the task and behavior assigned by a culture to each sex. Xx = female xy= male xo= female yo= nothing xxx= female xyyy=male. Intersexuals: individuals who don"t fit neatly into male/female biological standard or into a binary gender standard. Transgender: people who occupy a culturally accepted intermediate position in the binary male-female gender construction. *many cultures have created social space for transgendered individuals who are culturally accepted as a 3rd gender category. Fa"afafine: samoan word means like a woman men who like to take on the role of a woman.
