PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Prejudice, Social Class, Social Forces
14 Dec 2015
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Sex and gender: sex: narrow term, refers to those inborn biological characteristics relating to reproduction gender, gender: broader term, refers to the psychological characteristics and social categories that human culture creates. Psychology articles/books fail to maintain the distinction between sex and: doing gender: you express your gender when you interact with other people and perceive gender in these other people. E. g. you provide gender messages through your appearance, tone of voice and conversational style; you also perceive the gender of your conversational partner and probably would respond differently to a male versus a female. Emphasizes that gender is an active/dynamic process, impossible to stop. Doing" gender since it is part of our actual identity. The extent of social biases: sexism: bias against people on the basis of their gender can reveal itself in many forms (e. g. social behavior, media representations of women and men, job discrimination) Social class is defined by these factors: income, occupation and education.
