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| 4804763 | Sex | the biological and physiological differences between men and women, the most obvious being the anatomical differences in their reproductive systems | |
| 4804764 | Sex roles | The behaviors and patterns of activities man and women may engage in that are directly related to their biological differences and the process of reproduction. | |
| 4805230 | Gender | The behaviors or patterns of activities a society or culture deems appropriate for men and women. These behavioral patterns may or may not be related to sex and sex roles, although they often are. | |
| 4805231 | Gender roles | the degree to which a person adopts the gender-specific behaviors ascribed by his or her culture. | |
| 4805232 | Gender stereotypes | the psychological or behavioral characteristics typically associated with men and women. | |
| 4805233 | How does culture influence gender? | 1. infants are born with a sex but without gender 2. they develop a gender based on socialization. 3. Gender is socialy constructed | |
| 4805234 | American Cultrue Gender | we generally have two genders, men and women | |
| 4805235 | Native American tribes gender | believed to have a third gender, called the Berdache | |
| 4805236 | Berdache | people w/two spirits (mean and women) | |
| 4805372 | Berdache marriages | 1. same sex marriages are possible 2. berdache cant marry each other, same gender 3. do not view sexual relations between berdache and their mates as homosexual | |
| 4806008 | berdache misconceptions | 1. hermaphrodites 2. sexual orientation 3. male berdache are men who dont want role of warrior | |
| 4806009 | economics and gender construction | We must consider 1. how the economy is affected by reasources 2. who has control over the reasources and power in the society 3. what kind of work people do and how they structure it 4. is there pressure to have many children or just a few | |
| 4806446 | gender identity | the degree to which a person has awareness of or recognition that he or she has adopted a particular gender role. | |
| 4806447 | sexual identity | the degree of awaremness and recognition by an individual of his or her sex and sex role | |
| 4806448 | gender and gender roles in different cultures | 1. content of what is considered women's work and mens work differs amoung cultures 2. who expresses there emotions are also different 3. differences in premarital and extramarital affairs | |
| 4806449 | William and Best studies on gender stereotypes | findings 1. characteristics associated with men rated as stronger and more active 2. people from some countries rated male characteristics as more favorable than female characteristics. 2. othrs rated female characteristics as more favorable. 3. strenth and actitivty where universal and favorablity was not. | |
| 4807551 | Hofstedes study | High masc- moralistic attitudes about sex encouraging passive roles of wmen, traditional focus on god Low masc- matter of fact about sex, emphasize religion less, focus more on humans than god Point- cultures differ in the degree to which they encourage gender differences and cncourage minimizing those differences. Hight masc-encourage difference Low masc-minimize differences. | |
| 4807801 | psychological gender differences across cultures | 1. Perceptual, spatial, cognitive 2. conformity and obedience 3. aggressiveness | |
| 4807802 | spatial differences | myth 1: men are better than women at spatial resoning and math, women are better at verbal comprehension | |
| 4808057 | Sexual Jealousy | the more important marriage thought to be the more jealousy people show | |
| 4956740 | androgyny | a gender identity that involves endorsement of both male and female characteristics | |
| 4956741 | gender-role ideology | judgments about what gender roles in a particulat culture ought to be | |
| 4956742 | machismo | a concept related to mexican American gender role differentiation that is characterzed by many traditional expectations of the male gender role, such as bein unemotional, strong, authoritative, aggressive, and masculine. | |
| 5302279 | Sexual Jealousy | 1. the more important marrige thought to be the more jealousy people show 2. marriage important for survival and well being 3. social power, men with more social power express more jealousy | |
| 5302280 | Buunk and Hupka | 1. Women more jealous than men about kissing 2. men more jealous than women about having sexual fantasies about someone else 3. Both men and women jealous about flirting with someone else. |
