HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Apache Hadoop

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS202
• Professor: Sherif- Trask Bahira

Document Summary

Sex: biological/physical attributes with which we are born: anatomical, hormonal, chromosomes. Gender: learned roles, attitudes, and behaviors that characterize people of one sex or the other. Sex influences people"s behavior, but it doesn"t determine how they think, feel, and act. People learn to be feminine or masculine through their gender, a more complex concept than sex. Gender roles: characteristics, attitudes, feelings, behaviors associated or expected of males and females. Gender identity: one"s perception of themselves as either masculine or feminine. Learned behavior powerful determinant of gender roles, but not for everyone. People"s gender identity becomes part of their self-concept, but people differ in extent to which a gender identity is important to them. Us society still has fairly rigid gender roles and widespread gender stereotypes, expectations about how people will look, act, think, and feel based on their sex. People tend to associate stereotypically female characteristics with weakness and stereotypically male characteristics with strength.