Conrad P. Kottak,
University of Michigan
| biological determinists | Those who argue that human behavior and social organization are biologically determined.
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| cultural determinists | Those who relate behavior and social organization to cultural or environmental factors. This view focuses on variation rather than universals and stresses learning and the role of culture in human adaptation.
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| domestic | public dichotomy-Contrast between women's role in the home and men's role in public life, with a corresponding social devaluation of women's work and worth.
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| extradomestic | Outside the home; within or pertaining to the public domain.
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| gender roles | The tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex.
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| gender stereotypes | Oversimplified but strongly held ideas about the characteristics of males and females.
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| gender stratification | Unequal distribution of rewards (socially valued resources, power, prestige, and personal freedom) between men and women, reflecting their different positions in a social hierarchy.
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| matriarchy | A society ruled by women; unknown to ethnography.
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| matrifocal | Mother-centered; often refers to a household with no resident husband-father.
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| patriarchy | Political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status, including basic human rights.
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| patrilineal | patrilocal complex-An interrelated constellation of patrilineality, patrilocality, warfare, and male supremacy.
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| sexual dimorphism | Marked differences in male and female biology, besides the contrasts in breasts and genitals, and temperament.
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| sexual orientation | A person's habitual sexual attraction to, and activities with: persons of the opposite sex, heterosexuality; the same sex, homosexuality; or both sexes, bisexuality.
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education