SOC 281 Lecture 4: Sex and Gender
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Sex:
● One’s biological category, male or female, based on anatomy and physiology
Sexual Identity
● The recognition, or internalization, of a biological sex category
Gender
● The social realization of biological sex
● Gender identity: the identification with the social category boy/man or girl/woman
● Gender expression: one’s pattern of outward behavior in relation to common standards
of a gender category
How Different Are We?
● Sex Differences Made Social
● Sexual dimorphism
○ Physical differences between the sexes
Sex and Gender: Differences Made Social
How different are we?
● Sex Differences Made social
● Sexual dimorphism
○ Physical differences between the sexes
● Sexual Diversity
○ Transgender
○ Intersex
○ Androgynous
Perspectives on Gender: Biological
● Structural Functionalist
○ Biological Perspective
● Feminism
● Masculinity
● Symbolic Interactions
Gender Socialization: Socialization
● Socialization
○ The process by which individual internalize elements of the social structure,
making those elements part of their own personality
● Parents
● Siblings
● Interactive Circles of Socialization
● School
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