HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ascribed Status, Penis Envy, Socioeconomic Status

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

Document Summary

Set of expected behaviors associated with a specific status. Helps us organize framework about how to treat others. How other people see you based on traits that are given to you. How other people see you based on what you make of yourself. Have a lot of control over this. Biological, physical attributes with which we are botn. Learned roles, attitudes, and behaviors that characterize people of one sex or the other. Nowadays understood to be shaped by social & cultural expectation. Born either male or female but learn to associate with one or neither. Stereotypes: oversimplified expectations of what it means to be a woman of a man. Characteristics, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors expected of males and females. Main status or role that we fall into. Ex: teacher students expect that he/she will show up to class on time with a lesson prepared to teach. One"s perception of themselves as either masculine or feminine.