Definition
Social ideas, structures, meanings, or interpretations that appear to be
concrete and natural but are actually socially created, policed, and
maintained
Social class endogamy Sociological imagination
Symbolic interaction Social construction
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Essentialism
The idea that based on natural
Emphasizes the positive qualities of physical differences between
women's roles such as nurturing, men and women there must be
caring, etc. connected to lib fem differences in the tasks they are
capable of
Focuses on the meaning-making
Sexual identity and sexuality in all
process of social interaction;
forms are socially constructed
interpretation of behavior
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Definition
Male; maintain physical integrity of the family by providing food and
shelter
Discrimination Patriarchy
, Instrumental role Prejudice
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Definition
Expected behavior associated with a status
Hormones Categories of sexuality
Morbidity rate Role
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Definition
Transgendered person that has had sex reassignment surgery
Transgender Transsexual
, Sex ratio at birth Discrimination
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Term
Women's empowerment
The process of learning masculinity Ability for women to exert
and femininity in ones culture control over their own identities
Ability to connect the personal to the
Words change in connotation to
social, understanding the impact
something more negative
society has on the human condition
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Term
Feminization of aging