Gender is different from sex: biological! Gender refers to roles which are cultural, and vary across cultures. Gender has specific understanding and practices.…
What is gender? What is sex in biological terms? Are gender and sex the same thing? Explain why or why not? Gender is a classification of categories in which it describes someone’s sex based on characteristics of a person, a category that society has given to a person. Sex is the biological difference in a person, such as the bodily organs, chromosomes, or hormonal profiles. Gender is what society labels a person by their characteristics, and sex is scientifically describes the difference between a male and a female. Even though gender and sex are very similar they are very different, they both have specific differences in which what makes a male a male and a female a female.…
Gender is the wide set of characteristics that distinguish between male and female entities, extending from one's biological sex to, in humans, one's social role or gender identity.…
So while your sex as male or female is a biological fact that is the same in any culture, what that sex means in terms of your gender role as a 'man' or a 'woman' in society can be quite different cross culturally. These 'gender roles' have an impact on the health of the individual. In sociological terms 'gender role' refers to the characteristics and behaviours that different cultures attribute to the sexes. What it means to be a 'real man' in any culture requires male sex plus what our various cultures define as masculine characteristics and behaviours, likewise a 'real woman' needs female sex and feminine characteristics.…
Gender is a social construction. Sex refers to biological differences that are unchanging; gender involves the meaning that a particular society and culture attach to sexual difference. Because the meaning varies over time and among cultures, gender differences are both socially constructed and subject to change.…
Gender is your social configuration of male or female. In biological terms sex is your male or female parts and pyscial features. Sometimes gender and sex are not the same because there are so people that feel differently about who they are want to be so they have surgeries to change or alter their biological parts.…
Gender is wheather a person is male or female. Sex in biological terms is the property or quality by which organisms are classified as female or male on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions.Gender and sex are not the same sex refers to the differences of biological and gender describes the characteristics of male and females.…
When a new child is born into this world, the first thing that the parents learn is the sex of their new baby. From a very young age, you are either classified as a boy or a girl. However, defining one as a boy or a girl is not actually referring to the sex of a human being. Although they are often considered as the same thing, they are far from the same. Sex is defined as a biological status of a species according to internal and external reproductive organs and sex chromosomes. They are often characterized as male, female or intersex. Gender refers to the behaviour, attitude and feelings that a culture gives to a person’s biological sex. The topic of sex versus gender is an ongoing issue in today’s society because people are becoming more…
The main lesson Brym and Lie draw from the story of baby Bruce is that…
a. Gender is the condition of being female or male and an internal sense of self. Sex in biological terms refers to the physical attributes such as sex chromosomes and hormones. No they are not the same thing even though much of society uses these words interchangeable to hold the same meaning. Gender is what a person most identifies with internally and externally. And sex is how you are born you are either borne a female or a male.…
The World Health Organization states, "sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women and gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women" (Mills, 2011).…
Today’s television shows have made an effort to stray from the classic American family and the gender roles within it. While gender roles aren’t as evident as they use to be, that’s not to say they do not exist. The Brady Bunch is a perfect example of gender roles existing even in a non-traditional family in the 1970’s. In a more current show, Full House, we also see a non-traditional family without a mother, but after looking closer I found that gender roles are still there.…
For many of us in western societies, the terms gender and sex are simply the same thing. Western cultures tend to view gender as a binary concept, with two fixed options; you are either born male or female. After we are born we are either placed in a blue blanket, if we are born males or pink blanket if we are born females. We then allow society to raise us. We tend to grow into the stereotypical American male and female. However, our biological sex and gender are completely different things. According Monica Algars gender is a person 's private sense of, and subjective experience of, his or her own gender (Sex Roles pg. 5). Sex is biological and…
Gender (Society) - Learned attitudes and behaviors that characterize people of one sex or the other.…
In a variety of contexts, the word "gender" is used to describe "the masculinity or femininity of words, persons, characteristics, or non-human organisms" (Wikipedia, 2006). More specific to psychology, gender role is a term used to describe the normal behavior associated with a given gender status. Those that do not follow this customary role given to their particular gender are said to have an atypical gender role. "A person who has normal male genitalia and identifies himself as a man will usually take up a masculine gender role, a role in society that will be viewed by the other people in his society as a normal thing for a male to do. A person who has normal female genitalia and identifies herself as a woman will probably do things that other people in her society will regard as appropriate to women" (Wikipedia, 2006). Some examples of the opposite of this, or of atypical gender roles are bisexual males or females, lesbians, or even just a male who has a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produced by castration of the singer before puberty. Then there is the term "sex," which many people believe means the same as gender. These terms, although similar, have different meanings. The term sex refers to "male and female duality of biology and reproduction", while gender has more to do with identity (Wikipedia, 2006). The reason why this distinction is important in theories of gender roles is due to the fact that when looking at the roles individuals play within their specific gender, both biological factors and indentity factors must be included.…