Gender and Sociological Perspectives

Description of Gender and Sex

The gender identity is a biological and self-conception of a person as male or female. Within the social sciences, the term refers to specifically social differences, some of which are the gender roles, but also other social facts such as values, moral and even aesthetic forms. The first confusion is that between gender and sex. Sex is determined by nature, a person born with male or female (Ortner, pp. 14). Instead, gender, male or female, learned, can be educated, changed and manipulated. Gender means the social and cultural construction that defines the different emotional ...