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Learning ObjectivesAfter finishing this chapter, students should be able to understand:
- Understand the cultural construction of male and female roles, and the concept of gender.
- Understand the economic and political impacts on the construction of gender roles. Document the multiple historical trajectories that changes in gender roles take in different political and historical situations.
- Explore the concept of shifting gender categories, and the limitations of terms such as "heterosexual" and "homosexual."
- Understand the concepts of age categories as social constructions; explore age grades and other types of age-based groupings.
- Learning ObjectiveCompare concepts of aging, and care for the aging, in America and Japan.
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