Sex
Gender and Biology
We describe ourselves in many different ways. One of the
most fundamental ways is to say “I am man or I am women “. That is to describe
oneself in term of biological sex. When a biological given sex (Maleness and Femaleness)
is used as the basis for constructing a social category, we call it gender. “Although
many people use the terms “sex “and gender interchangeably, they do not have
the exact same meaning. Sex is biological concept gender is a social construct.
It may be that few of your socially defined characteristics relating to gender
describe you accurately but this perhaps is less important than the fact that
people beliefs treating women and men differently even as opposites.
Significantly this differentiation occults not only on an
interpersonal level between individuals’ but also on a structure level within a
given society. Every society prescribes traits, behaviors and patterns of
social interaction for its members on the basis of sex. These prescriptions are
embedded in the institutions of the society in its economy, political system, educational
system, religion family forms and so on. This institutionalized patterns’ of
gender differentiation is referred to as a society’s sex /gender system to
examine sex/gender system.