SA 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Squaw, Visible Minority, Hegemonic Masculinity

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

Document Summary

Metrosexual: a term used to describe a man (usually a heterosexual man) whose lifestyle, spending habits, and concern for personal appearance are likened to those considered typical of a fashionable, urban, homosexual man. Introduction: gender and sex-what"s the difference? (page 229) Gender is a highly contested area within sociology. Sociologists differ on theories about gender on the grounds of whether it is determined by culture or biology. Sex: the biological differences between boys/men and girls/women, as opposed to the sociological differences (which come under the term gender) Gender role: the role that a culture or society assigns as normal for boys/men and girls/women. It"s a part we"re assigned at birth, based on our sex. Gender role differ across cultures, both in content in the specific expectations society holds for each gender and in the severity or permissiveness with which society treats those whose behaviour contravenes the expectations for their gender.