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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