PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Sex Organ, Stereotype

• School: Pace University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Sporin

Document Summary

There"s a good deal of overlap between concepts of sex & gender, but they"re not the same: sex refers sexual anatomy & sexual behavior, gender refers to sense of maleness/femaleness related to membership in a given society. Gender roles: set of expectations, defined by a particular society, that indicate what"s appropriate behavior for men & women: contains conclusions about what is/isn"t (cid:498)appropriate(cid:499) behavior for others & ourselves. Expectations about men and women differ significantly: beliefs may result in favoritism toward members of one of the sexes. Gender roles also may produce stereotyping: stereotyping: judgments about individual members of a group on basis of membership in group, sexism: negative attitudes & behavior toward a person that are based on person"s gender. Glass ceiling: invisible barrier w/in organization that may prevent women from being promoted beyond a certain level b/c of gender discrimination.