Ch 3 Soc 430

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berdache

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in N.A. societies, a man or woman who dressed like, performed the duties of, and behaved like a member of the opposite sex

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sex

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the biological characteristics that distinguish men and women

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gender

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the social and cultural characteristics that distinguish women and men in a society

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intersexual

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a person who is born with ambiguous sexual organs

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gestation

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the nine-month development of the fetus inside the mother's uterus

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biosocial approach (to gender differences)

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the theory that gender identification and behavior are based in part on people's innate biological differences

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social role

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a pattern of behaviors associated with a position in society

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gender roles

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the different sets of behaviors that are commonly exhibited by women and men

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socialization

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the way in which one learns the ways of a given society or social group so that one can function within it

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socialization approach (to gender differences)

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the theory that gender identification and behavior are based on children's learning that they will be rewarded for the set of behaviors considered appropriate to their sex but not those appropriate to the other sex

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peer group

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a group of people who have roughly the same age and status as one another

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psychoanalytic approach (to gender differences)

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the theory that gender identification and behavior are based on children's unconscious internalization of the qualities of their same-sex parent

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interactionist approach (to gender differences)

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the theory that gender identification and behavior are based on the day-to-day behavior that reinforces gender distinctions

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sex category

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the sex that people assign to a person based on her or his socially recognized indicators of being a man or a woman

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patriarchy

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a social order based on the domination of women by men, especially in agricultural societies

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sex-gender system

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the transformation of the biological differences between women and men into a social order that supports male domination

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capitalism

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an economic system in which goods and services are privately produced and sold on a market for profit

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socialism

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an economic system in which the number and types of goods produced, and who they are distributed to, are decided by the government rather than by the actions of a market

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comparable-worth discrimination

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a situation in which women and men do different jobs of equivalent value in the same company but the women are paid less

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masculinity

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the set of personal characteristics that society defines as being typical of men