Sociology 2179A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emergency Health Services, Cardiovascular Disease, Secondary Sex Characteristic
16 Apr 2016
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The social determinants of health: sex & gender (copy review from lecture notes on owl) Sex: the biological categories of male and female, to which we are assigned based on our chromosomal structure, genitalia, hormones, secondary sexual characterisics such as facial hair, and so on. Those who have 2 x chromosomes and a vagina are sexually female, those with one x and one y chromosome and a penis are sexually male. Gender: the social categories of masculine and feminine and the social expectaions regarding masculinity and femininity which we are expected to follow based on our assigned sex. Because these categories are social, they vary across ime and culture. Epidemiological data shows us that both sex and gender impact health: example: diferences and changes in life expectancies of men and women, women tend to live longer than men but over ime it has become longer for both.
