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18 Cards in this Set
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Sex Categorization
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Social assignment of male or female. What Society see's you as.
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Gender
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Social category, or attributes, assigned (masculinity, femininity)
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Patriarchy
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is a sex/gender system in which men dominate women and what is considered masculine is ore highly valued than what is considered feminine.
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Sociology
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scientific study of human societies and cultures, and social behavior
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paradigm
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school of thought that guides the scientist in choosing the problems to be studied
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Structural functionalist paradigm
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depicts society as a stable, orderly system in which the majority of members share a common set of values, beliefs, and behavioral expectations.
- explains gender as being derived from the biological differences between the sexes, especially genitalia |
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Gender roles
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refer to the behaviors that are prescribed for a society's members, depending on their sex
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Power
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the ability to impose one's will on others.
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feminist paradigm
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acknowledges the importance of both nature and learning in the acquisition of gender
- explains gender in terms of the political and socioeconomic structure in which it is constructed and emphasixes the importance of taking collective action to eradicate sexism in sociology as well as in society, and to reconstruct gender so that it is neither harmful nor an oppressive social catgeory |
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Sexism
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is the differential valuing of one sex over the other
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androcentrism
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male-centered; the view that men are superior to other animals and to women
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bipedalism
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walking upright on two feet
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ethnocentrism
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the view that one set of cultural beliefs and practices is superior to all others
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foraging societies (hunting and gathering societies)
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small technologically undeveloped societies whose members meet their survival needs by hunting and trapping animals and gathering vegetation and other types of food in their surrounding environment; characterized by highly egalitarian gender relations
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gender attribution
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the process of linking archeological data with males and females
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gynecentrism
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female centered; the view that females are superior to animals and men
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matrifocal
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a system of social organization and group life centered around mothers
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primatology
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the study of living, nonhuman primates
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