Wilkes University Sociology 101 Exam 3, Chapters 9-12

Biological distinction of being male or female that develops before birth.

A person with the combination of male and female internal/external genitalia.

Socially constructed attitudes, meanings, beliefs, and behaviors associated with the sex differences of being born male or female, and learned through thet process of socialization.

Learned and reinforced through associated behaviors and attitudes with the help of socializing agents such as family, schools, peers, media, politics, and religion.

Gender role that combines both male and female characteristics.

Stratification system favoring men.

One who advocates social and economic equality for women in opposition to the male dominated system of patriarchy.

Stratification system favoring women.

Want the same rights, privileges and protection afforded to African American and other minorites under the Civil Rights Act by the passage of an Equal Rights Act.

Consider housework drudgery and view stay-at-home wives as domestic slaves.

More aggressive in their drive for liberation and consider men as "necessary evils" and traditional concepts of parenthood and family as obsolete.

Family.

Attempt to imitate behavior of others.

How society views sex and how we feel about ourselves as sexual beings.

Being emotionally and/or sexually attracted to the opposite sex.