SW 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Cengage Learning, Sexual Assault, Glass Ceiling
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Chapter 9: gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexism. Gender: the social and psychological characteristics associated with being female or male. Gender identity: a person"s internal psychological self-concept of being male, female, nonbinary, etc. Gender roles: the attitudes, behaviors, rights, and responsibilities that society associates with the different genders. Gender-role socialization: the process of conveying what is considered appropriate behavior and perspectives for the different genders in a particular culture. Sex: the biological distinction between being female and being male, usually categorized on the basis of the reproductive organs and genetic makeup and typically assigned at birth. Social construction: the process by which people"s perceptions of reality are shaped largely by the subjective meaning that they give to an experience: how people think about a situation becomes what is real to them. The social construction of gender: looks at the structure of the gendered social order as a whole and at the processes that construct and maintain it.
