SOCL 2001 Chapter : SOCL 3
Document Summary
Killing us softly 4 video/movie: women are taught to live for men and not for. Sexual objectification: representing or treating a person like a sex object, one that serves another"s sexual pleasure, media is increasingly sexualized. What is gender: socially constructed differences between females and males, it is learned, based on cultural expectations. Sex: biological characteristics; your dna make up. Gender role: attitudes and activities that are appropriate for each sex. Gender identity: perception as male or female. Stereotypes: expectations on how people will act based on their sex, women: nurturing, emotional, vain, men: aggressive, dominant. Sexism: belief that one sex is superior to the other, usually against females, patriarchy, social organization in which males dominate females, literally means rule of the father . Doing gender : our performances that we have on a daily basis infant garments segregated into pink and blue at birth.
