GWST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: David Buss, Robert Sapolsky, Erving Goffman

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Gender & Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 1010
• Professor: Jacqueline Warwick

Document Summary

Psychological sex differences through sexual selection (david buss) Every society has a hierarchy based on gender, organizes people by gender, and assumes important distinctions between different genders. But the meanings of gender vary in different societies, in different historical moments, at different ages, etc. Also, meanings of gender vary within a culture at any historical moment. Boxing us into one of two restrictive options as soon as we"re born (diapers blue boy and pink girl diapers) Most important thing to discern about a child is their gender identity. Sex: the biological, anatomical apparatuses that make us male or female. Gender: the cultural meanings of maleness and femaleness. Hegemony: culturally-preferred ways of thinking; the culture"s dominant definitions and assumptions. David buss, psychological sex differences is biology destiny: field of evolutionary psychology. Examining the adaptive strategies of humans over thousands of years. Men and women have evolved differently in response to different evolutionary needs (reproduction)