MIDTERMS week 7-10
Cards (51)
- A potent tool for how humans understand and participate in the world. It can shape how people see society.
- Based on Thelma Kintanar and Angela Tongson’s book, “Gender-fair Language: A Primer”, there are three aspects of language that inform how gender is shaped:
- It is the process of exchanging ideas and information through words and actions.
- It is a social construct that determines one’s roles, expected values, behavior, and interaction in relationships involving men and women.
- It is a specialization of the communication field that focuses on the ways people, as gendered beings, communicate.
- According to him, in his book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, men and women have different communication styles, emotional needs, and relationship dynamics.
- A male brain represents more information processing centers.
- A female brain represents more networking between these processing centers.
- He suggests that male and female brains have evolved differently, and today female brains can be categorized as E-brains (empathizing brains) while male brains can be categorized as S-brains (systemizing brains).
- According to _____, men and women have discernible differences in their abilities, often closely linked to hormonal levels.
- Women tend to engage in _____, or relationship- oriented talk, whose primary function is to build understanding and empathy within a wider group (Tannen, 2014)
- Men tend to engage in _____, or task-oriented talk, whose primary function is to produce solutions to problems (Tannen, 2014).
- This theory suggests that men and women have fundamentally different communication styles, shaped by their gender identities, socialization, and cultural expectations.
- The "Genderlect Theory" is developed by who?
- The fundamental difference is that women have a deep desire to seek _____, while men have a deep desire to seek _____.
- In seeking connection and status, men will prefer _____. To connect with others, women will talk more about _____.
- Women talk more in _____ conversations. Men talk more in a _____ forum.
- For women, conflict is a process where _____ are reduced, and so they will work hard to avoid them. On the other hand, men will use conflict as a short-cut to gain _____.
- The main goal of this theory is mutual respect and understanding between genders. This encourages people to acknowledge and accept the communicative culture of others.
- _____ refers to all the socially transmitted behaviors, arts, languages, signs, symbols, ideals, beliefs, which is learned and shared in a particular social group of the same type.
- It is any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex, which has the purpose or effect of denying equal exercise of human rights
- It is the use of language which devalues members of one sex, almost invariably women, and thus foster gender inequality.
- The _____ is often associated with the adult male and it is difficult to distinguish if it is used in the literal sense or in the generic sense
- There is no gender-neutral singular pronoun in the English language. So by default, “he” and “his” are often used in the generic sense.
- In the English language, there is an absence or lack of words that refer to women’s experiences.
- A term used to describe gender pronouns that a person wants others to use when referring to them.
- _____ refers to the process through which individuals, from childhood, learn and acquire cultural norms, values, and expectations that are associated with their gender.
- Children develop gender-related beliefs and expectations through _____ with the people around them.
- An “_____” of gender socialization is any person or group that plays a role in the childhood gender socialization process. These agents are the family, education, peer groups, and mass media.
- _____ refer to the set of cultural and societal expectations and norms that define how individuals should behave based on their gender. These roles are defined by social and cultural factors and are often reinforced through various institutions such as family, media, religion, and education.
- WHAT COUNTRY? Women still control the household, family decisions, and finances. Men have to work for hours on end for their companies and even spend free time for the company.
- WHAT COUNTRY? Women are expected to be nurturing and morally superior to men, and they are assigned to duties associated with family, particularly the rearing and education of children. Men are given exclusive domain over the public sphere because of their supposed strength and assertiveness. They are exempted from any responsibilities in the home.
- WHAT COUNTRY? Both men and women engage in earning as well as caring activities. More fathers embrace the idea of active parenting.
- WHAT COUNTRY? Patriarchy upholds the supremacy of the man over the woman. Women are expected to raise children, cook, clean house, fetch wood, and serve others.
- WHAT COUNTRY? Both wives and husbands earn for their family. More men help in household duties. Women have become more involved in recreation activities such as sports.
- The process by which an individual learns to conform to the norms of the group where one is born with.
- because the formative years of every individual is almost always spent with and developed by the _____.
- Refers to ways by which parents deter or encourage behavior on the basis of appropriateness as regards gender
- Refers to way by which parents channel the child’s interests in activities in conjunction with gender as deemed appropriate.
- Use of language to label children in a way that reinforces appropriate gender identification.