SOC 12050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Arapesh Languages, Margaret Mead

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 12050
• Professor: Allen Lowery

Document Summary

Gender, the social construction of gender, so-called natural differences have been used to justify unequal opportunity in education, employment, politics, and more. Refers to who we are as males and females: gender: the social and cultural significance we attach to those presumed biological differences. Refers to what we become as men and women, which occurs through socialization: gender and inequality. All societies use anatomical differences to assign gender roles. Gender roles can be seen as arising from biological development or cultural. Men and women differ in their access to privilege, prestige, and power. Traditionally, men have been first in line when it comes to who gets what, when, and. Gender stratification refers to the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. how. Sex is a biologically determined characteristic, while gender is a socially constructed characteristic. Gender identities are the conceptions we have of ourselves as being male or female.