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• Socialization - whereby individuals learns to adjust to a group
• Gender stereotyping - overgeneralizing about behavior patterns of women and men
• Sexism - refers to prejudiced beliefs that values one sex over another
• Family - first agent of socialization
• Education - reinforcement of gender roles and stereotypes continues when reaches school age
• Peers - mimicking the actions of significant others
• Mass media - serves as another significant agent of gender socialization
• Stratification - experience unequal access to basic
• 1859 - women are not allowed to own property
• 1909 - abducting women is legal
• 1918 - women are not allowed to vote
• 1953 - women pay less than men for the same work
• 1969 - women did not have right for legal abortion
• Structional functionalism - meet the biological needs of the individual that makes up the society
• Critical Sociology - promote thier worldview as well as thier economic interest
• Symbolic Interactionism - sees society as the product of share symbols, such language
• Society > Symbols > Establish meanings > Develop thier view > Communicate with each other >
• Force marriage - married without thier consent
• Child marriage - marriage of child under the age of 18
• Female Genital Mutilation - removes of the external female genital
• Type 1 - Clitoridectomy, cutting of clitoris
• Type 2 - Excision, removes clitoris and labia minora
• Type 3 - Infibulation, sews closed vagina to prevent sex until marriage
• Dowry - payment made to a bride's in law at the time of her marriage
• Honour crimes - violence committed by male family against female family
• Women infanticide - killing of girl babies
• Sex - differences between male and female
• Gender - social construct that is based on biological differences between males and females.
• External regulation - what is proper and normal based on one's identity
• Internal Social Control - police himself according to society's standards
• Gender Pay Gap - men earns more than women
• LGBT - used to refer the community as a whole
• Lesbian - A woman who is attracted to other women.
• Gay - A person who is attracted to people of the same sex.
• Bisexual - affection towards both sexes, but not necessarily attracted to both sexes.
• Transgender - A person whose gender identity is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
• Intersex - born with both male and female reproductive organ
• Gender fluid - gender identification shifts
• Allosexual - people who experience sexual attraction
• Allosexism - discrimination on the asexual people