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Flashcards by Zeneatha Jònsson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Zeneatha Jònsson
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Social-construtionism | a theoretical perspective that looks at how relationships between people are socially constructed in particular cultural, social and historic contexts |
| Sex differences | differences between people in terms of their biological characteristics including chromosomes, hormones and genitals |
| Gender | The characteristics (masculine & feminine) that a society or culture assigns to a person on the basis of their sex |
| Sexuality | how people experience and express their sexual feelings |
| Sexual orientation | a person's particular sexual feelings directed toward another person with set corresponding categories (gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight, etc.) |
| Essentialism | the belief in inherent, natural differences between women and men |
| Socialisation | a broad term used to describe the process through which children learn society's rules, beliefs and values |
| Doing gender | particular behaviours, tasks, responsibilities and expectations of men and women and the construction, production and re-production of gender in our daily lives |
| Gender stereotypes | psychological traits and behavioural characteristics attributed to women and met by virtue of their group membership |
| Cognitive developmental approaches to gender | suggest that children understand the world in terms of categories and use cognitive processes to acquire gender-related behaviour |
| Gener labeling | the use of terms such as girl and boy |
| Gender knowledge | knowledge about the particular characteristics of females and males |
| Gender consistency | the recognition that gender does not change |
| Schemata | the conceptual frameworks individuals use to make sense of the world around them |
| Andronomy | used to refer to individuals who show little difference between masculine and feminine scores on Bem's sex-role Inventory, denoting the integration of masculinity and femininity in an individual |
| Critical men's studies | an area of research that addresses issues of masculinity by critiquing male power and domination |
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