Gender Identity and Gender Roles |  |
Learning ObjectivesAfter completing this chapter, you should be able to:
| Distinguish among the concepts of sex, gender, gender identity, and gender role. |
| Explain the concept of gender-role ideology, and the general process of gender-role socialization. |
| Describe the relationship between gender-role socialization and societally based notions of masculinity and femininity. |
| Describe the process of gender-identity development and its relationship to gender stereotyping and sexism. |
| Describe the influence of parents, peers, media, education, and religious preference on the process of gender-role socialization. |
| Summarize the important features of the debate regarding hidden gender biases in contemporary education. |
| Describe how sociobiology, cognitive social learning theory, and gender schema theory attempt to explain gender-role development. |
| Summarize the most recent findings regarding hypothesized gender differences in cognitive abilities and aggression. |
| Describe the positive and negative effects of gender stereotyping and how stereotyping can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies in human interaction. |
| Briefly summarize the findings regarding the universality of gender stereotypes. |
| Summarize the major findings regarding gender differences in sexual attitudes and behavior. |
| Explain the concept of sexual script and describe the important features of contemporary male and female sexual scripts in North American society. |
| Summarize the important findings regarding gender and sexual scripts in other-sex and same-sex couples. |
| Define transgenderism and describe the continuum of behaviors associated with this phenomenon. |
| Explain how transgendered behavior is viewed in our society compared to three other societies. |
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