Chapter 9 Soci

What is the difference between sex and gender?

Sex refers to an individual's membership in one of two categories: male or female. Gender refers to the physical, behavioral. and personality traits that a group considers to be normal for its male and female members.

Cisgender

Term used when gender identity and/or expression aligns with the sex assigned at birth.

Gender nonconforming

Term used when gender identity and/or expression differs from societal expectation about gender roles.

Transgender

Term used when gender identity and/or expression is different from the sex assigned at birth.

Sexuality

The character or quality of being sexual.

Gender expression

An individual's behavior manifestations of gender.

Cisgenderism

Belief in the superiority of cisgender persons and identities.

Heterosexism

Belief in the superiority of the heterosexuality and heterosexuals.

Microaggression

Everyday uses of ordinary language that may send denigrating messages to the members of a certain social group

Homophobia

Fear of or discrimination toward gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.

Transphobia

Fear of or discrimination toward transgender or other gender-nonconforming people.

Patriarchy

Literally meaning rule of the father, a male dominated society.

Sexism

The belief that one sex, usually male, is superior to the other.

Sexual orientation or identity

The inclination to feel sexual desire toward people of a particular gender or toward both genders.

What is gender role socialization? When does gender role socialization begin? Identify important agents of gender role socialization.

The lifelong process of learning to be masculine or feminine. It begins early and continues throughout our lives. Accomplished by four major agents of socialization: families, schools, peers, and media.

Coming out

To openly declare ones true identity to those who might not be aware of it

Gender identity

An individual's self-definition or sense of gender.

Binary

A system of classification with only two distinct and opposite categories.

What does it mean to be intersex?

A term used to describe a person whose chromosomes or sex characteristics are neither exclusively male nor exclusively female.