SOCI 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Planned Destruction Of Warsaw, Sex Segregation, Nationstates
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Sociology 120 exam 3 study guide 1: sex vs. Gender - while sex refers to physical difference of the body, gender concerns the psychological, social, and cultural differences between males and females. The distinction between sex and gender is fundamental, because many differences between males and females are not biological: male vs. Female incomes - despite the decreasing gender gap in pay, men still earn substantially more than women. Many sociologists view segregation, or gender typing, as a cause of the gender gap in earnings. Sex segregation is problematic because the gender composition of a job is associated with the pay received for that job. All known societies are patriarchal, although there are variations in the degree and nature of the power men exercise, as compared with women. An ethnic group is one whose members share a distinct awareness of a common cultural identity, separating them from other groups.
