Thinking About Human Sexuality | |
Learning ObjectivesAfter completing this chapter, you should be able to:
Describe the components of human sexuality. |
List and describe traditional sources of sexual knowledge and describe how science can expand such understanding. |
List and describe five social institutions that influence our sexuality. |
List recent social changes and describe how they have an influence on our sexuality. |
Contrast the typical person's ways of trying to understand sexuality with the three major ways utilized by the sexuality scholar. |
Summarize some of what scholars know about sexuality in ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, the Middle East, Asia, Greece and Rome. |
Describe the historical events and Christian traditions that influence modern Western concepts of sexuality. |
Describe those aspects of Victorianism that influence contemporary North American sexuality. |
Summarize the impact of the second wave of feminism on contemporary North American sexuality. |
Summarize the environmental and technical problems involved in conducting sexuality research. |
Explain why people should understand the methods used to study human sexuality. |
Describe the strengths and weaknesses of surveys, observation, experiments, correlational studies, and clinical studies. |
List the major ethical principles that guide sexuality research, practice, and education and explain their purpose. |
Define critical thinking and describe nine general guidelines for thinking critically about sexual information. |
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