WEEK 13 : Introduction to Sociology/Gender


1. SUMMARY
CIS are people who follow a given gender. In other words, men at birth try to remain men. TRANS are people who don't follow their original gender. Change sex from man to woman, from woman to man. This is because the biological sex and social sex are different.
Sex is generally divided into two parts, male and female. But biology is actually more complex. It can also be changed. Until the 1950s, there was a belief that sex change was naturally possible. However, it is currently implemented through scientific and medical methods.
Gender is similar to sex, an interpretation of human behavior patterns. In other words, the behavior that must be done according to gender. But gender is also flexible.
Men and women are biologically different. There is no known reason. First of all, there is a belief that physiological differences may have been socially affected. In other words, differences arose as they evolved. Gender discrimination is divided into four attitudes: the dichotomy of sex, the superiority of sex, the difference between men and women, and the hatred of women or men. There is also a theory that explains gender differences. There are gender socialization, structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interaction, feminist theory and patriarchal system.

2. INTERESTING
By gender, men said they focus on their challenges and women on their personal tasks, is this true? I wonder if it is the same result in all countries. It is classified as female and male, but I think it can be different to focus within the same gender. And I don't understand that women give birth biologically, which leads to discrimination.

3. DISCUSSION
I wonder why women came to be called pink-collar jobs when they say that the traditional work of women was called pink-collar jobs. And I'd like to discuss what we can do to solve this gender discrimination.

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