Title: Human Differences: Culture, Gender, and Sexuality - dummies
Headings: Human Differences: Culture, Gender, and Sexuality
Human Differences: Culture, Gender, and Sexuality
Psychology and culture
Choosing a view: From the inside or out?
Exploring indigenous psychologies
Looking for universals
Psychology and gender
Finding a place in the continuum
Looking at gender differences
Psychology and sexuality
Laying the building blocks of sexuality
Infants, toddlers, and young kids
Approaching adolescence
Puberty and adulthood
Defining healthy sexuality
Deciding what’s attractive
Getting your bearings on sexual orientation

Content: Cross-culture studies have been conducted in a wide range of areas, such as developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and psychopathology. Cross-cultural similarities have been found for such phenomena as theory-of mind, counting ability in infants, and mate preferences (in almost all cultures studied, men value attractiveness and chastity more than women do, and women value status and financial prospects). Ultimately, as can be found with many issues in psychology, the “answer” to the human universal versus cultural variability question is that broadly speaking, the components of the mind and human behavior can be thought of as (by varying degrees) both universal and variable across cultures. Psychology and gender
Perhaps the most simple and obvious human differences are sex and gender, male or female, masculine or feminine. Nearly all descriptions of other people when we talk about them, tell stories, describe them, or research them include an accounting of sex and gender. Sex refers to an individual’s biological status as either male or female, including anatomy. For the most part, you are born with your sex. Gender is not so cut and dry. Gender refers to the behavior and characteristics defining masculinity or femininity, which is understood to be psychologically, socially, and culturally constructed. Gender can be correlated with sex to some degree, but everyone knows people who are sexually male who are feminine in gender and vice versa.