Topic 8 Summary
Mulasi Nsika
SOC21040
Mr. Craig
November 24, 2014
Topic 8 Summary In writing explain each of the 6 learning objectives in a manner that demonstrates your competence and level of understanding of the course material.
Your Sex depends on whether you were born with male or female genitals and a genetic program that released male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system. However, the case of Bruce/Brenda/David shows that more is involved in becoming male or female than biological sex differences. Being male or female involves not just biology but also certain masculine and feminine feelings, attitudes, and behaviors. Sociologists distinguish biological sex from sociological gender. Gender is your sense of being male or female and playing masculine and feminine roles as defined by your culture and society. One’s gender is composed of the feelings, attitudes, and behaviors typically associated with being male or female. Gender identity is one’s identification with or sense of belonging to a particular sex biologically, psychologically, and socially. When you behave according to widely shared expectations about how males or females are supposed to act, than you adopt a gender role. The social construction of gender does not stop at the school steps because outside of school, children, adolescents, and adults continue to negotiate gender roles as they interact with the mass media. The gender roles that children learn in their families, at school, and through the mass media form the basis for their social interaction as adults. For example, by playing team sports, boys tend to learn that social interaction is most often about competition, conflict, self-sufficiency, and hierarchical relationships. Once the sex of children is known, parents and teachers tend to treat boys and girls differently in terms of the kind of play, dress, and learning they encourage. The mass media reinforce the learning of masculine and feminine roles by making
SOC21040
Mr. Craig
November 24, 2014
Topic 8 Summary In writing explain each of the 6 learning objectives in a manner that demonstrates your competence and level of understanding of the course material.
Your Sex depends on whether you were born with male or female genitals and a genetic program that released male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system. However, the case of Bruce/Brenda/David shows that more is involved in becoming male or female than biological sex differences. Being male or female involves not just biology but also certain masculine and feminine feelings, attitudes, and behaviors. Sociologists distinguish biological sex from sociological gender. Gender is your sense of being male or female and playing masculine and feminine roles as defined by your culture and society. One’s gender is composed of the feelings, attitudes, and behaviors typically associated with being male or female. Gender identity is one’s identification with or sense of belonging to a particular sex biologically, psychologically, and socially. When you behave according to widely shared expectations about how males or females are supposed to act, than you adopt a gender role. The social construction of gender does not stop at the school steps because outside of school, children, adolescents, and adults continue to negotiate gender roles as they interact with the mass media. The gender roles that children learn in their families, at school, and through the mass media form the basis for their social interaction as adults. For example, by playing team sports, boys tend to learn that social interaction is most often about competition, conflict, self-sufficiency, and hierarchical relationships. Once the sex of children is known, parents and teachers tend to treat boys and girls differently in terms of the kind of play, dress, and learning they encourage. The mass media reinforce the learning of masculine and feminine roles by making