Social Identity, Personality, and Gender Key Terms

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Chapter 16

• Social Identity, Personality, and GenderKey Terms

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• self-awarenessThe ability to identify oneself as
  an object, to react to oneself, and to appraise
  oneself.
• naming ceremonyA special event or ritual to mark
  the naming of a child.

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• personalityThe distinctive way a person thinks,
  feels, and behaves.
• dependence trainingChild-rearing practices that
  foster compliance in the performance of assigned
  tasks and dependence on the domestic group,
  rather than reliance on oneself.

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• independence trainingChildrearing practices that
  promote independence, self-reliance, and personal
  achievement on the part of the child.
• modal personalityThe personality typical of a
  society as indicated by the central tendency of a
  defined frequency distribution.

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• core valuesThose values especially promoted by a
  particular culture.
• intersexuals People born with reproductive
  organs, genitalia, and/or sex chromosomes that
  are not exclusively male or female.

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• transgendersPeople who cross-over or occupy a
  culturally accepted intermediate position in the
  binary malefemale gender construction.
• ethnic psychosesMental disorders specific to
  particular ethnic groups.