SY101 Chapter Notes -Secondary Sex Characteristic, Radical Feminism, Liberal Feminism
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Gender inequality males" and females" unequal access to power, property, and prestige on the basis of sex. Gender inequality cuts across all aspects of social life. Sex the biological characteristics that distinguish males and females: primary sex characteristics organs such as penis or vagina, secondary sex characteristics become evident at puberty. Gender a social rather than biological characteristic: what a group considers proper for its males and females. The sociological significance of gender is that it is a device by which society controls its members. Almost all sociologists take the side of nurture . The dominant sociological position is represented by symbolic interactionists: the visible differences of sex do not come with meanings built into them. Ideas of gender vary greatly from one culture to another. Alice rossi the issue is not biology or society, but rather nature provides biological predispositions, which are then overlaid with culture. Gender is the primary division between people.
