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: 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. Finding a place in the continuum
Gender manifests itself psychologically and behaviorally in what psychologists call gender roles. A gender role is a collection of social norms and expectations for a person who identifies or is identified as either masculine or feminine, man or woman. The presence of gender roles in societies gives rise to stereotypes and biases, prejudices, and judgments, of course. However, the world is still very “gendered,” and people are still pretty much viewed through the lens of gender role and gender role categories. Psychologist Sandra Bem developed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory as a way to characterize an individual’s gender in relation to a scale.