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15 Cards in this Set
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What is gender order?
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The ways in which societies shape notions of masculinity and femininity into power relationships.
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What is gender regime?
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The gender order as it works in smaller settings (e.g. in bars).
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What is hegemonic masculinity?
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The main ways of being a man in a society.
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What is gender?
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The social aspects of differences and hierarchies between male and female.
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What is hermaphrodite?
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A human being with some combination of female and male internal and external genitalia.
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What is meant by gender role?
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The learning and performing the socially accepted characteristics of a given sex.
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What is gender stratification?
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A society’s unequal distribution of wealth, power and privilege between the sexes. (inequality)
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What is patriarchy?
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A form of social organization in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women.
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What do social learning theories suggest?
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Differences in gender behavior are learnt through a mixture of rewards, reinforcements and punishments.
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What do cognitive theories suggest?
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Differences in gender emerge through a categorization process in which boys come to place themselves in a masculine category and proceed to organize their experiences around it.
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What do psychodynamic theories suggest?
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Differences in gender emerge out of emotional struggles between the infant and its caretakers in the earliest years of life.
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What is feminism?
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The advocacy of social equality for the sexes, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism.
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What are the 3 most relevant types of feminism?
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1) liberal feminism; seeks to expand the rights and opportunities of women
2) socialist feminism; seeks a basic transformation of society 3)radical feminism; seeks to eliminate the cultural notion of gender itself |
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What are sexual scripts?
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Guidelines that help define the who, what, where, when and even why we have sex.
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What is the q u e e r theory?
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The most sociological theory still has bias towards heterosexuality and that non-heterosexual voices need to be heard.
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