LABR 1F99 Study Guide - Human Relations Area Files, Margaret Mead, Social Stratification

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1F99
• Professor: Harry John

Document Summary

Sex biological characteristics such as vagina or penis and other organs related to reproduction. Gender personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being male or female. Gender inequality or stratification the unequal distribution of wealth, power and privilege between men and women. Male-female differences exist in: physical ability, but women have a greater life span, during adolescence, females excel in werbal skills (that is, language skill) while boys show greater mathematical ability. These differences are probably due to both biology and socialization: research points to no differences in intelligence. George peter meurdoch (1897 1985: head of yales human relations area files. Known for creating 70 cultural universals none of which are gender-specific. In most pre-industrial societies, hunting and warfare fall to men and domestic duties to women, but beyond this pattern, societies showed variation in tasks.