SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Beaufort Scale, Fallopian Tube, Vas Deferens
29 Oct 2015
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Sex: biological understand and dichotomous categories; focus on physiological differences. Gender: social understanding and categories; focus on the social meanings attached to being male or female; how gender socialization constructs masculinity and femininity. Playing these roles that have been defined as appropriate by our society. Sociologists use two terms: gender identity and gender roles. Gender identity: sense of biological, psychological or social belonging toward a particular sex. Gender roles: we learn to behave in ways that fit with expectations about how members of our gender is supposed to behave. Sociologists find that gender appears to be an important independent variable in research. Research on self-esteem-- how someone feels about themselves. Positive self-esteem: feel like their worthy, positive and kind to themselves. They believe self-esteem is related to structural advantage and structural disadvantage. They find that women have lower self-esteem than males ( true for all age groups) Socioeconomic groups and old people experience lower self-esteem.
