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18 Cards in this Set
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A social science theory focusing on the inborn nature of social traits
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Sociobiology
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The physical and biological differences between men and women
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Sex
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Cultural attributes of masculinity and feminity based on biological distinctions
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Gender
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The term suggesting that a person's sex of either male or female is determined at birth
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Ascribed Gender Status
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The term suggesting that gender is learned throughthe sociolization process
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Achieve gender status
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The way women think about family and career responsibilities as a balancing act
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Contingent temporal world
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The individauls sense of maleness or femaleness
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Gender identity
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The belief that men are superior to women and should control all important aspects of society
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Patriarchy
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Ancient law in India stating that if a wife had no children after eight years of marriage she would be banished
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Manu code
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The founder of sociology, he believed that women should not be allowed to work outside the home, to own property, or to exercise political power
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Auguste Comte
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A pioneereing anthropologists who found that gender roles were not innate properties and could vary widely among societies
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Margaret Mead
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Collected the data on the sexual dvisions of labor in more than 200 preliterate societies
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George Murdock
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Applied the functionalist theory to the modern family
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Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales
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A prominent conflict theorist who linked gender inequalities to capitalism
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Friedich Engels
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Pointed out that boys and girls are pressured to resolve their adolescent identity crisis in very different ways in our culture
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Erik Erikson
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Challenged the value judgements made by traditional theorists about males and female styles of reasoning, especially in the area of moral decision making
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Carol Gilligan
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Writers popularizing the work of ethology and generalizing from the behavior of nonhuman primates to that of humans
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Desmond Morris, Robin Fox, and Lionel Tiger
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Conducted research on the conversational style and content differences among females and males
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Deborah Tannen
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