This also means that steroid hormones have the most lasting effects on cellular function. Steroid hormones come from the gonads of male and females. There are two classes of steroid hormones: androgens, estrogens, and progestin (Pinel, 2009). Progestin is released to assist the uterus and breasts in pregnancy (Pinel, 2009). Progestin is also released in men, but the function is unknown.
Olweus found that higher levels of self-reported physical and verbal aggression were associated with higher levels of testosterone. Therefore, there is a positive correlation between the hormone and aggression levels. However, further on from this, the explanation can be argued to be deterministic. It suggests that because all males have higher levels of testosterone than females, they are all aggressive. It is known that not all males are aggressive and some females can be aggressive.
C Langlois’ research shows that babies under 12 months will spend more time looking at attractive faces. This shows that preferences are innate as babies have not yet learnt what is deemed as attractive or not. AO1: Evidence for sexual selection is based on the attraction to resources. Women are impressed by men with resources and qualities such as ambition which suggests they will have increasing amounts of resources. Swallows impress females by regurgitating food to show that they can provide for future offspring.
With this study we can see that even though boundaries of female and male dominates occupations have been broken, that it is natural for us as humans to lean towards more masculine/feminine sectors within the workplace depending on what we identify ourselves as. We are still “doing gender” even if we don’t consciously realise we are doing
Nurture; is it natural for men and woman to be attracted to the same sex? Or does the environment or society cause a person to seek companionship from the same sex? According to researchers they have examined the brains of both a heterosexual and a homosexual male and female and have determined that the hypothalamus (the organ in the brain that is responsible for sexual behavior) was much bigger in the homosexual subjects than in the heterosexual subjects. They believe this was a cause of an increased amount of early levels (probably prenatal) of estrogen (a natural or artificial female sex hormone responsible for the development of female sexual characteristics) in the men and androgen (a natural or artificial male sex hormone responsible for the development of male characteristics) in women. Also it is the possibility that a male receives too little androgen at birth and the female receives too little estrogen at birth causing the homosexual and the lesbian behavior.
This person may now live life as a man, or may feel that their gender identity can't be truly summed up by either of the two options we're usually given (male or female). (1, 2) • How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity? Men are often viewed as masculine and women as feminine. Although the these roles can bereversed, but is often frowned upon and made fun of in modern society by most people.Although this has changed in the past few years with more people becoming accepeting of masculine women and feminine men. • Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity?
were initially male only. The same circumstance falls true for the males in the book. Sarroub states, “Boys had more freedom of movement farther away from the home, because parents tended to be more lenient with them”. The conditions may be different, but even so, the boys already had a step up and did not have to uphold the same “position” or ranking as the girls discussed in this book. But research shows, contrarily, that both genders can concurrently grow through educational attainment.
In this case, nurture was influenced in Bruce’s life. He was not born as a girl but society treated him as a girl due to the sex change. Nature in this case study had a role as well. Even though he was treated as a girl, he felt as if he was a boy, he even acted like a boy. You cannot change someone into another gender because the gene of that person will still remain.
Are gender and sex the same thing? Explain why or why not? According to Monash University, “Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine” and “Sex refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal, and external sex organs” (A.Nobelius, 2004). I believe gender and sex are different. Main difference is, gender describes external view of a person such as their behavior or voice and sex describes in more biological features such as their physical appearance or their organism.
Should girls be allowed to play boys sport There is no gender-based physiological reason to separate females and males in sports competition. In fact, research demonstrates that girls who participate with boys in youth sports have shown better performance than boys. Competition groupings should be organized around skill and experience and not based on the sex. In spite of these, I would say there is a lot of difference in physique of men and women. Traditionally, male athletes are supposed to be in rough and tumble sports.