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Title: Gender and Sex


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Gender and Sex
  • Sex Biological Characteristics
  • Boy
  • Girl
  • Gender Socially-constructed characteristics
  • Male
  • Female

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Domesticity and Dependence
  • Cult of domesticity previously used to support
    the non-wage roles of women
  • Now, cult of true womanhood used to invoke the
    conditions of waged roles for women
  • Dependence is the result, not of womens relative
    exclusion from wage labor, but of the very
    conditions under which women are actively
    incorporated into its ranks.

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Nonworkers, age 20-64, by sex and reason for not
working 1996
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Boys Needs Lost to Girls Needs
  • Male infants have a 25 higher mortality rate
    than female infants
  • Boys are twice as likely to suffer from autism
    than girls
  • Majority of schizophrenics are boys
  • Majority of retarded children are boys
  • Emotionally disturbed boys outnumber girls 4 to 1
  • Twice as many boys as girls are injured or die
    from physical abuse at the hands of parents and
    caregivers
  • 3 of every 4 children labeled with a learning
    disability are boys
  • 4 of every 5 juvenile court cases involved crimes
    committed by boys
  • 95 of juvenile homicides are committed by boys
  • Although girls attempt suicide 4 times more often
    than boys, boys are 7 times more likely to
    succeed than girls
  • Shortened lunch and recess periods hurt boys more
    than girls
  • Sports and competition deemed bad for society
  • Androgyny has replaced feminine and masculine

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Sociological Theory Symbolic Interaction
  • What is the self-society relationship in
    childrens development?
  • How do children socialize their role in society?
    (primary and secondary groups)
  • What is the connection between children and the
    symbols they internalize?
  • What is the connection between communication and
    action?

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Sociological Theory Structural Functionalism
  • What is the self-society function in childrens
    development?
  • How do children learn and perform their role in
    society? (primary and secondary groups)
  • What is the connection between children and the
    functions they perform?
  • What is the connection between gender and sex?

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Sociological Theory Conflict
  • What is the conflict in childrens development?
  • How do children learn subordination in society?
    (primary and secondary groups)
  • What is the connection between gender and sex?
  • What is the resource and tension between
    genders/sexes?

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Sociological Theory Feminist
  • What is the self-society identity in childrens
    development?
  • How do children know what is male and female
    (primary and secondary groups)?
  • What is the connection between communication and
    action in patriarchy?

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