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Gender Identity and Gender Roles
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Learning Objectives

After 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.