SOSA 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Caitlyn Jenner, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Gender Role

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1003
• Professor: Falconer C.

Document Summary

Sosa 1003 lecture 19 chapter 8 sexualities and genders october 31, 2018. Sex, intersex, gender, transgender sex and intersex. Intersex intersex people do not fit conventional male or female sex categories. 7 percent of people lie somewhere between male and female as conventionally understood. Being male or female involves not just biological characteristics but also certain masculine and. Accordingly, sociologists distinguish biological sex from sociological gender. Gender is your sense of being male or female and playing masculine and feminine roles in ways defined as appropriate by your culture and society. Your gender comprises the feelings, attitudes, and behaviours typically associated with being male or female. Gender identity is a person"s identification with, or sense of belonging to, a particular sex, biologically, psychologically, and socially. When you behave according to widely shared expectations about how males or females are supposed to act, you adopt a gender role. However, her gender identity does not correspond with her sex.