SOCL 3601 Study Guide - Kin Selection, Homophily, Upper Class
Document Summary
Sex & gender: we usually don"t know how to interact with a person when we don"t know their gender/sex. Sex biological makeup and our role in reproduction: gender expected behaviors and dispositions that society has assigned to members of each sex (learned behavior) Lakoff"s language & women"s place shows the example of how easy it is to fall into androcentrism. People tend to pay less attention to things women say: gender polarization. We push people to the poles because our society doesn"t want anybody in the middle. Berdache group of people that live their lives as members of the opposite sex; seen as special. There are different gender rules: for men: don"t be female, be successful, be aggressive, be sexual, be self-reliant", for women: appearance counts, be sensitive and caring, expect negative treatment, be superwoman, no single meaning of feminine.
