SOCL 2001 : Exam 3
Document Summary
Gender: it"s a culture/social thing rather than biological, sex biological characteristics, gender learned attitudes/behaviors, chromosomes/anatomy, learned characteristics. Gender roles: attitudes and activities that are appropriate for each sex, behaviors society expects for men and women, step out of role harshly judged, includes clothing; talking a certain way, maintain script otherwise it is unconventional. Gender identity: perception of yourself as male or female, starts at very young age, enforced by parents usually. Stereotypes: expectations on how people will act based on their sex, people tend to exaggerate the differences, while sociologist imply the differences are relatively small, men: strong, dominant, women: weak, emotional, nurturing, dating flipped upside down . How we do femininity: pink was considered light red until 50s, and so was considered masculine, blue=virgin mary, was considered feminine. Infantilizing women: sexualizing girlishness: being a young girl is sexy, see this in advertisements of women, how little girls learn how to pose provocatively, the media greatly advertises this.
