SOC 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Social Forces, Stonewall Riots, Orgasm
2 Apr 2019
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Chapter 12: gender and sexuality: women hold ceo positions at 21 fortune 500 companies. Gender: the social construction of gender: sex: whether a person is classified as male or female based on anatomical or chromosomal criteria, males and females differ in anatomy, chromosomes, and average levels of certain hormones. Gender differences vary by setting and time: differences are socially constructed because they vary between social settings, men and women conform more closely to norms of masculinity or femininity when they are aware of being watched. In a video game where students dropped bombs, men dropped significantly more bombs than women when they knew they were being monitored: people are watched in school, at home, at work, and social gatherings, on the street. Identical twins have the same sexual orientation about 50% of the time: fraternal twins are less likely, non-twin siblings are even less likely, combination of biological and social factors.
