Biological essentialism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What do radical feminists (old feminists) dislike about the 4th wave? E.g. Kate Millett - 2nd wave believe you shouldn't conform to the patriarchy's demands whereas the 4th wave believe you should wear what you like to feel empowered. Believe women had a choice regarding the Harvey Weinstein scandal Feel uncomfortable accepting transgender women as women as they have not had the same prejudices against them e.g. reproductive rights. Sex - The biological differences between men and women ...

LBS 3860 Concepts Exam 2 Study Guide with complete solution Theory of Complementarity A theory which defines males and females as opposites. Reductionism A simplification by which not all possible causes are considered but there is only one single alleged cause. Determinism The law of cause and effect, including, for instance, the idea that a behavior has a biological basis. Dichotomous Categories Classifying into just two opposing groups; thus, ignoring and gray area or overlap. Esse...

Human nature for feminists - Women have biological differences but they are irrelevant. essentialism - we must take the differences into account to help women. What did betty Frieden say about imposing expectations on themselves? - women impose the role of children on themselves. The state for socialist feminists - Say that the current state oppresses women (as it does lower classes) with the patriarchy and economically. The state for liberal feminists - The state should help women through...

LBS 3860 Concepts Exam 2 Study Guide with complete solution Theory of Complementarity A theory which defines males and females as opposites. Reductionism A simplification by which not all possible causes are considered but there is only one single alleged cause. Determinism The law of cause and effect, including, for instance, the idea that a behavior has a biological basis. Dichotomous Categories Classifying into just two opposing groups; thus, ignoring and gray area or overlap. Esse...

Sex -the biological distinction between females and males Gender -the socially constructed roles and characteristics by which a culture defines male and female Essentialism -An emphasis on the fundamental nature of the biological differences between men and women Androgyny -displaying both traditional masculine and feminine psychological characteristics Patriarchy -A form of social organization in which males dominate females Private sphere -aspects of life which are of concern of the ind...

Sex -the biological distinction between females and males Gender -the socially constructed roles and characteristics by which a culture defines male and female Essentialism -An emphasis on the fundamental nature of the biological differences between men and women Androgyny -displaying both traditional masculine and feminine psychological characteristics Patriarchy -A form of social organization in which males dominate females Private sphere -aspects of life which are of concern of the ind...

Human nature for feminists - Women have biological differences but they are irrelevant. essentialism - we must take the differences into account to help women. What did betty Frieden say about imposing expectations on themselves? - women impose the role of children on themselves. The state for socialist feminists - Say that the current state oppresses women (as it does lower classes) with the patriarchy and economically. The state for liberal feminists - The state should help women through...

CRT Introduction CRT Movement - Answer- - collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power - CRT contains an activist dimension - began as a movement in the law Basic Tenets (principles) if CRT - Answer- - Racism is ordinary - our system of white-over-color ascendancy - "interest convergence" or material determinism advances interest of white elites (materially) and working class people (psychically) thus, ...

COM 316: Gender and Communication answered 2023Transactional communication people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages in specific contexts influenced by individual and societal forces gendered communication ways that a person's gender identity is communicated (or performed) to self and others Sex biological characteristics (ex: male, female, intersex) Gender a psychologically and culturally constructed term which varies from culture to...

Formal Sanctions - ANSWER mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior; sanctions are formal, overt "expressions of official group sentiment" Informal Social Sanctions - ANSWER the usually unexpressed but widely know rules of group membership; unspoken rules of social life; unwritten rules of social life; we are all simultaneously enforcing the rules of society and having them enforced upon us; We can recognize good behavior and sanction bad behavio...