I. Concepts about gender and stereotypes [624277]
I. Concepts about gender and stereotypes
1.1. Gender – definition, factors
Gender can be described as a socially constructed classification of women and men. The term
of ‘gender’ has profounder suggestions which defines the role of a person in a household, in
community or in the society, not only in public life but in private life as w ell.
When child’s come to life, they receive a ‘label’ according to their genitals, eithe r male or
female. This determines the sex, or the gender of the new -born, which at this point can be
interchangeable.
Researches on gender are theorizing 2 types of g enders: psychological and social. On one hand,
psychological gender it is considered to be the biological gender, which is either male or
female. On the other hand, the social gender is the one that a person’s character adopts it. This
can be masculine, fe minine or androgynous.
The terms sex and gender have to be considered as two distinctive aspects. The sex of a person
is biological and it differentiate males from females by the numbers of chromosomes, by the
reproductive system, anatomy, hormones. Gende r on the other side is a behaviour that every
male or female develops in a social and cultural environment.
As J. Richard Udry states in one of his studies, gender refers to the differences in behaviour,
while sex is related to the biological classificati on into males or females. The biological gender
is represented by the sex hormones which influence the result of the body structure.
When describing gender from a social point of view, we have to mention three basic concepts:
gender role, socialization an d opportunity structures.
Socialization can have an impact on how a male can be more or less masculine than other males
or how a female can be more or less feminine than other females. This aspect depends on
culture, education, and mainly on all factors t hat contribute to the foundation of ones’ principles
and beliefs.
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