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Feminism |
A consciousness raising movement to get people to understand that gender is an organizing principle of life. The underlying belief is that women and men should be accorded equal opportunities and respect |
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Sex |
the biological differences that distinguish males from females |
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Sexuality |
desire, sexual preference, and sexual identity and behavior |
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Gender |
a social position; the set of social arrangements that are built around normative sex categories |
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Essentialism |
a line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones |
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Biological determinism |
a line of though that explains social behavior in terms of who you are in the natural world |
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Hegemonic masculinity |
the condition in which men are dominant and privileged, and this dominance and privilege is invisible |
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Gender roles |
sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as a male or female |
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Patriarchy |
a nearly universal system involving the subordination of femininity to masculinity |
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Structural functionalism |
theoretical tradition claiming that every society has certain structures (the family, the division of labor, or gender) that exist to fulfill some set of necessary functions (reproduction of the species, production of goods, etc.) |
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Sex role theory |
Talcott Parson's theory that men and women perform their sex roles as breadwinners and wives/mothers, respectively, because the nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern societies, fulfilling the function of reproducing workers |
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Homosexual |
the social identity of a person who has sexual attraction to and/or relations with other persons of the same sex |
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Sexism |
occurs when a person's sex or gender is the basis for judgment, discrimination, and hatred against him or her |
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Glass ceiling |
an invisible limit on women's climb up the occupational ladder |
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Glass escalators |
the accelerated promotion of men to the top of a work organization, especially in feminized jobs |
