SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hostile Work Environment, Social Stratification, Mass Media
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Compulsory heterosexuality: the assumption that individuals should desire only members of the opposite sex. Essentialists: observe male female differences in sexual scripts, the division of labor at home and in the workplace, mate selection, sexual aggression, jealousy, promiscuity, fidelity, and so forth. They then interpret these differences as natural and universal. Gender: encompasses the feelings, attitudes and behaviors that are associated with being male or female as conventionally understood. Gender identity: refers to identification with, or a sense of belonging to, a particular sex, biologically, psychologically and socially. Gender roles: comprise the repertoire of behaviors that match widely shared expectations about how males and females are supposed to act. Hostile environment sexual harassment: involves sexual jokes, comments and touching that interfere with work or create an unfriendly work setting. Quid pro quo sexual harassment: involves sexual threats or bribery used to extract sexual favors as a condition of employment decisions.
