18 Questions
How do girls primarily learn?
Through association and connectedness
What is a well-known indicator of the absence of contemplation or reflection as per the text?
Silence
How do men primarily learn, according to the text?
By separating themselves from one another
What is the responsibility commonly given to women in all communities, based on the text?
Being universal caregivers
What can harm the target individual or group psychologically?
Micro-aggressions
What is described as subjective knowledge in the text?
The quest for self and the inner voice
What defines humans as male or female?
Chromosomes
Which term is used to describe the taught social behavior linked to one's sex?
Gender
What represents the internal sense of being male, female, or another gender?
Gender Identity
Which aspect of gender can change over time and vary across different cultures?
Gender Roles
What involves learning and internalizing culturally acceptable ways of feeling, thinking, and acting based on gender?
Gender Role Socialization
Which characteristics differentiate sex from gender?
Physiological vs. Learned behavior
What do gender stereotypes encompass?
Sexual orientation and gender identity and expression
What does sexism refer to?
Prejudice against sex
How is culture described in the text?
A system of symbols giving meaning to experience
What does the idealization process involve according to the text?
Interactions with culturally significant objects
In the context of culture and instinct, what does culture provide people with?
Systems of shortcuts for meaningful interpretations and responses
How are discriminatory gender roles maintained according to the text?
Through laws and policies
Study Notes
Culture and Micro-Aggression
- Micro-aggression refers to adverse racial slights and insults that can harm individuals or groups psychologically.
- Culture can change without waiting for genetic mutation to manifest, especially when its system of meaning is no longer conducive to human flourishing.
Women's Ways of Knowing
- Women are often given the responsibility of universal caregivers in all communities.
- Girls learn through association and connectedness, whereas boys learn to be men by dissociating from their mother's roles.
- Women learn through empathy, whereas men learn by separating themselves from one another.
Types of Knowledge
- Receive knowledge: listening to the voices of others.
- Subjective knowledge: the quest for self and the inner voice.
- Procedural knowledge: a voice of reason and separate and connected knowing.
- Constructed knowledge: integrating the voices.
Gender Stereotypes
- Four types of gender stereotypes:
- Sex stereotypes
- Sexual stereotypes
- Sex-role stereotypes
- Compounded stereotypes
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE)
- Sexual orientation covers the three dimensions of sexuality: sexual attraction, sexual behavior, and sexual fantasies.
- Emotional preference, social preference, and self-identification are aspects of sexual orientation.
- LGBTQIA groups are defined by their SOGIE, outside of heteronormativity.
Gender Issues
- Sexism: prejudice against sex, leading to persecution of women and LGBT people in a patriarchal culture.
- Gender equality: a state's acknowledgment that all human beings can live in equal conditions and realize their full potential.
Culture and Rationality
- Culture: the display of rationality, system of symbols that give meaning to experience, and shortcuts for meaningful interpretations and responses.
- Instinct: humans are not dependent, innate, and fixed patterns of animal behavior.
Leveling Off Sexuality and Gender
- Sex: physiological characteristics that define humans as male or female, considered as the act of reproduction (copulation).
- Gender: a taught social behavior linked to one's sex, sets one's tasks, responsibilities, attitudes, etc. in male-female relationships.
Determinants of Sex
- Female: vagina, clitoris, uterus, ovaries, XX chromosomes, estrogen, progesterone hormones, and eggs fertilized.
- Male: penis, scrotum, testes, XY chromosomes, androgen, testosterone hormones, and sperm cell.
Gender Identity and Expression
- Gender identity: internal sense of being male, female, or another gender.
- Gender expression: how a person expresses their gender and how their gender identity is conveyed to others by behavior, voice, or physical characteristics.
- Gender roles: include careers, dating expectations, and household chores, and are not fixed; changes over time, culture to culture, and learned or acquired.
Test your knowledge on culture change, micro-aggressions, and women's roles in society. Learn about how cultures can evolve and become more equitable for women through understanding and awareness.
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