GENSOC

• Sex refers to the physiological characteristics that define humans as either male or female
• Gender is a taught social behavior frequently linked to one's sex
• Gender roles and characteristics are not fixed, may change over time, vary from culture to culture, and are learned or acquired
• Gender identity is a person's internal sense of being male, female, or another gender
• Gender expression concerns how a person expresses their gender and how their gender identity is conveyed to others
• Gender role socialization is the process of learning and internalizing culturally acceptable ways of feeling, thinking, and acting based on gender
• External regulation involves various institutions dictating what is proper and standard based on one's identity
• Internalized social control causes people to police themselves according to society’s standards and norms
• Gender roles are the duties that men and women are expected to fill, depending on gender
• The sociology of the family provided the foundation for early sociological views on gender roles
• From a conflict standpoint, society serves as a stage for struggles for supremacy and power, affecting gender roles and the family
• From a structural-functionalist standpoint, society comprises interconnected pieces contributing to overall functioning, examining how each component of social structure contributes to total social balance, harmony, and equilibrium
• Symbolic Interaction Perspective asserts that people respond to the meaning they bring to the world around them
• Transgender is a word used to describe people whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior differs from what is usually associated with the sex given at birth
• Transgender identities include Drag Queen, Butch lesbian, Femme, Drag King, Intersex, Transvestite, Transgender, Androgyne, Transsexual, FTM, MTF
• Gender stereotypes are developed when institutions reinforce biased perceptions of a particular gender’s role
• Four types of gender stereotypes are sex stereotypes, sexual stereotypes, sex-role stereotypes, and compounded stereotypes
• Sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression are referred to as SOGIE
• LGBTQIA is a short name for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual
• Sexism is defined as prejudice against sex
• Gender equality is the acknowledgment that all human beings can live in equal conditions and realize their full potential to contribute to the state and society
• Culture is the system of symbols that allows people to give meaning to experience
• Micro-aggressions are hostile, disparaging, or adverse racial slights and insults that can harm the target individual or group psychologically
• Women may be excluded from specific schools of thought due to gender-related characteristics
• Images associated with vision, seeing, or illumination symbolize knowledge in Western masculine reasoning
• Listening is more suggestive of women's knowledge than seeing
• Women connect silence with expertise because they are frequently left unheard and mute
• Women were given the responsibility of universal caregivers in all communities
• Women learn through empathy, men learn by separating themselves from one another
• Silence is a well-known indicator of the absence of contemplation or reflection
• Subjective knowers rely on themselves and their experiences to arrive at truth
• Procedural knowers learn through processes and hold a different perspective than what they were taught
• Constructed knowledge involves integrating the voices and evaluating and accepting who they are