BIOL354 Lecture Notes - Gender Role, Human Sexuality, Participant Observation
23 Jun 2014
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Sex - biologically male or female (xx or xy) Gender maleness or femaleness, feminine or masculine; psychological and sociocultural vs. biological. Gender identity self-concept of being female or male. Gender role complex clusters of behaviors/mannerisms to which we are expected to conform based on our sex. Sexuality involves: physical activities and behavior for reproduction an/or pleasure, erotic feelings desires, fantasies, thoughts, urges and attractions, sexual organs. Human sexuality how we experience a express ourselves as sexual beings (gender, gender identity, gender roles, sexual orientation) critical part of t self. Behavior f groups in the population of society as whole: effects of demographics on behaviors (e. g. , age, sex, method: surveys, interviews, observations, anthropologic perspective, cross cultural range of behaviors. Research objective test of theory: psychoanalytic freud, personality: id, ego, superego. Id unconscious: primary process, pleasure, source of psychic energy ad instinctual impulses. Ego largely conscious, secondary process, reality, mediator among the id and the superego and external reality.
