SOSC 1185 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Racialization, Reductionism, Androcentrism
24 Feb 2015
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Sex: a person"s biological status - usually male and female (fairly straightforward) Gender: a persons learned or cultural status, usually ascribed on the basis of one"s sex but not always/usual terms are masculinity and femininity so a binary (made up of 2, paired) A social label and a system of classification, not a description of biology. Significant around clinical drugs and their side effects. Majority of drugs have been tested on male bodies and women then take the drugs and have serious side effects - androcentric bias (given something that works very well for men but has not been tested on women) We make choices that determine our biological status - Gender is a scheme for the social catagorization of humans . A way of managing situational conduct based on normative attitude. What is expected of us as girls and boys changes as we age -as individuals we have a societal role to play and we are expected to conform.
