SOC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Gender Identity, Biological Determinism, Liberal Feminism

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1010
• Professor: Lovaglia Michael

Document Summary

Gender: socially learned expectations, identities, and behaviors associated with members of each sex. Extraordinary power of social and cultural influences on things often popularly seen as biologically fixed. Biological determinism: expectations that refer to complex social phenomena to physical characteristics (ex: men are aggressive) Gender socialization: men and women learn the expectations and identities associated with gender in society. Gender identity: o(cid:374)e"s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of o(cid:374)eself as (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) o(cid:396) (cid:373)a(cid:374) Transgender: live as a gender different than what they were assigned at birth. Ge(cid:374)de(cid:396) so(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374): age(cid:374)ts a(cid:396)e fa(cid:373)ilies, pee(cid:396)s, (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s pla(cid:455), s(cid:272)hooli(cid:374)g, et(cid:272). There are certain roles and expectations for each gender (stereotypes) This encourages men to act more masculine. Latinos=more conservative in their gender roles than whites. Work experience, religion, etc. have influence on gender attitudes than race. Gendered institutions: pattern of gender relations that structure social institutions; stereotypes. System of privileged and inequality with institutionalized power relations, unequal.