ANTHROP 2202H Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Turner Syndrome, Xyy Syndrome, Dowry
19 Aug 2016
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Sex and gender: determined by genes and environment, men and women differ genetically. Marked differences such as in height and weight, in male and female biology besides the contrasts in breasts and genitals: many behavioral and attitudinal differences emerge because of culture, gender is culturally constructed, gender roles. F. 1. tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex: gender stereotypes. Oversimplified, but strongly held ideas about the characteristics of males and females: gender stratification. Unequal distribution of rewards between men and women, reflecting their different positions in a social hierarchy: economic determinants of gender status = autonomy and social power, stateless societies = gender stratification based on prestige, not wealth. Gender roles and gender stratification: gender stratification decreased when men and women made equal contributions to subsistence, domestic-public dichotomy. Contrast between women"s role in the home and men"s role in public life, with a corresponding social devaluation of women"s work and worth: reduced gender stratification: matrilineal matrilocal societies.
