SOC275H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Role Theory, Secondary Sex Characteristic
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Doing gender: the interactionist approach sex role theory: we acquire our gender identity through socialization, and afterward we are socialized to behave in masculine or feminine ways. Candace west and don zimmerman: a person"s gender is not simply and aspect of what one is but, more fundamentally, it is something that one does, and does recurrently in interaction with others . The two sexes become different genders, which are assumed to have. Penises are classified in one way and vaginas are classified in another way different personalities and require different institutional and social arrangements to accommodate their natural- and now social acquired- differences. Secondary sex characteristics ( those that develop at puberty) We see role identity through the secondary sex characteristics: through breast development, facial hair etc. We also see the behavior of a person: how they dress, move, talk. These things signal us to whether someone is a man or woman rather than looking at their genitals.
