Gender
The personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male
Gender Stratification
The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women
Marget Mead's Research
Described that your culture defines if something is feminine or masciline cause other cultures might not see it the same way.
Geroge Murdock;s Research
Discovered that mostly everywhere men and women have the same task for example mostly men hunt and go to war
Matriarchy
A form of social organization in which females dominate males
Patriarchy
A form of social organization in which males dominate females
Sexism
The belief that one sex is innately superior to the other
Gender Roles or Sex Roles
Attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex
Minority
Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates
Sexual Harassment
Comments, gestures, or physical contacts of a sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome.
Intersection Theory
Is analysis of the interplay of race, class, and gender, which often results in multiple dimensions of disadvantages
Feminism
Is support of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism
Liberal Feminism
Accept the basic organizations of our society but seek to expand the rights and opportunities of women
Socialist Feminism
Evolved from ideas of Marx and Friedrich
Keep money is small amount of men's hands
Radical Feminism
Patriarchy is so firmly entrenched that even a socialist reveloution would end it
Talcott Parsons
Gender forms a complementary set of roles that links women and men into family units and gives each sex responsibility for caring out important task
Pornography
Sexually or explicit material that causes sexual arousal