SOCI 1251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Child Care
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Sex fixed physiological differences between males and females. Gender - differences determined by our society and our culture. Gender essentialism: the belief that men and women have inherent, unique, and natural attributes that qualify them as separate genders. Gender as a social construct: the belief that gender differences are due to socialization, prejudice, discrimination, and other forms of social control. What is the evidence for gender as a social construct: gender varies across history, gender varies across cultures. Socialization: the lifelong process of learning to become a member of the social world, including learning the values and beliefs of our culture. Interaction: the basic building block of socialization, through which a child is shaped into a human being and becomes a member of a society. Social self: the perceptions we have of who we are. Parents are called primary agents of socialization because children acquire their first knowledge of language, norms, and values from them.
