DRAM 80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Role
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Sex: the biological differences between males and females. Gender: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex (cid:1) (cid:1) Gender norms rules or standards of behavior held for one sex or other and shared by most members of society (cid:1) Gender norm violations doing the unexpected or not doing the expected for a given gender (cid:1) (cid:1) Children can distinguish males and females shortly after two years of age and acquire basic knowledge about gender norms between ages two and five years (cid:1) (cid:1) Gender role socialization members of society learn how males and females ought to look and dress is a key factor in communication of an individual"s gender. This socialization teaches individuals what gender-appropriate dress is but also what responses individuals should have toward the gender appropriate or gender-inappropriate dress of others (cid:1) Design works to objectify those characteristics which emphasize femaleness [or maleness] within the social context of that era .
