ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gender Role, Patrilocal Residence, Sexual Orientation

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Brent Pav

Document Summary

Overview: sex and gender, recurrent gender patterns, gender roles and gender stratification, gender in industrial societies, beyond just male and female. Sex and gender: human sex-gender roles and sexuality influenced by biological predispositions (nature) and environment (nurture) Gender refers to cultural construction of male and female characteristics: gender roles: tasks and activities that a culture assigns to the sexes. Gender stereotypes: oversimplified, strongly held ideas about characteristics of males and females. Gender stratification: unequal distribution of rewards between men and women, reflecting their different positions in a social hierarchy: men and women constrained by cultural training, stereotypes, and expectations. Cross-cultural study (murdock and provost 1973) of gender drawn from economics, politics, domestic activity, kinship, and marriage. Time and effort spent in subsistence activities by men and women tend to be equal: female labor predominates in domestic activities and child care, differences in male and female reproductive strategies.