Essays Tagged: "biological differences"
Autism, what causes it and what the symptoms are.
specific cause of autism is not know, researchers have been able to link autism to neurological or biological differences in the brain. In some cases, there appears to be a pattern of autism in famil ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Race related issues are not a new concept.
action of theorists, though, who contend that race doesn't actually exist. Previous thoughts on the biological basis of race are quickly eroding under the scrutiny of modern science, and the idea of r ... amples.In preceding centuries, theories about race centered on the idea that there were fundamental biological differences between members of different races. Some theorized that there was a scale of ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
What is feminism?
celebrated is called cultural feminism. This theory of feminism supports the notion that there are biological differences between men and women, for example, 'women are kinder and more gentle then me ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Sex Discrimination in the Workplace.
Women and men are different biologically; all cultures interpret these biological differences into a set of social expressions t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Inequity between boys and girls
ter in the real world, even though they do better in school than boys.It is no doubt that there are biological differences between man and woman. As we know that the development of bones, muscles and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Sex, Sexuality and Identity
rn era the term "sex" and "sexuality" have being inherently linked to the conception concerning the biological differences between the male and female body. The word sex as refers to both the physical ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Gender behavior: Nature or Nurture
Gender is the general identity that defines a person's biological differences as well as their sociological differences used to emphasize the distinctions ... t creates inequality in the sexes. "It is popularly believed that the social position of females is biologically mandated to be intertwined with the care of children and 'natural' dependency on men fo ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Stereotypes of Masculine
Gender is the general identity that defines a person's biological differences as well as their sociological differences used by to emphasize the distinctio ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Simone DeBeauvoir The Second Sex
uths and artificial differences that separate females from males. She starts her analysis examining biological differences that truly separate the sexes. "The bond that unites her to her oppressors is ... nd that unites her to her oppressors is not comparable to any other. The division of the sexes is a biological fact, not an event in human history."Biologically, in humans the product of the two sexes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Gender role
are born to be subordinate to men. What factors make these people always think like that? Are they biological, or social and cultural factors?Some scientists and theorists believe that there are some ... e scientists and theorists believe that there are some differences between men and women because of biological differences. First, they differ from genetic structure. Men have one "X" chromosome and o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Gender and Education
, alongside other important variables such as socio-economic class or caste, race or ethnicity. The biological differences of being born as a boy or a girl become important only later in life when chi ... ideas in that society how men and women should or should not behave. These social meanings given to biological sex differences are covered by the term gender. So, Sex refers to the biological differen ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Design a questionnaire and comment on it to determine a childs point of view on a subject of your choice [in ths case gender confusion].
eing male or female', but they are typically used in slightly different ways: sex tends to refer to biological differences, while gender tends to refer to cultural or social ones". This quote points o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Metacognition
McInerney & McInerney, 2002).Individual differences in metacognitive abilities may be caused by biological differences (nature) or through differences in individual learning experiences (nurture) ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
World History - Philosophy of Race
ow we should deal with the idea of race and what role race should play. We will examine fundamental biological differences between races as theorized by four historians with different backgrounds and ... changed over time.In preceding centuries, theories about race centered on the idea that there were biological differences between members of different races. J.F. Blumenbach recognized five races: Ca ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
THE STATUS OF WOMEN
inferior status compared to men. This situation was often justified as being the natural result of biological differences between the sexes. In many societies, for examples. People believed women to ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Race and Infant Mortality in the United States
fourth, more promising perspective.The first common perspective, or school of thought, argues that biological differences between the two groups may be important: Black babies are born smaller than W ... e birth weight between the races, no evidence exists to suggest that the birth weight difference is biological in nature. On the contrary, substantial evidence exists that racial differences in birth ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Gender and Age "Sick Societies"
ific part when speaking of different social problems encountered by men and women. Sex makes up the biological differences; of male and female. Gender is the socially learned behaviors that are attach ... r example of men holding power over the lives of women.Gender roles are not given at birth, as ones biological sex, they are to be learned and taught amongst those surrounding one at an early age. The ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Anatomy is Destiny;"Men and Women are Limited by their Biological Differences and the Social and Economic Divisions Between them are Necessary." An enquiry into British society as a Patriacrhy
h to be born into. The multitude of life choices available mean that women are no less held back by biological differences than men; there are very few occupations where a male or female could truly b ... he same level as men?This brings up the initial statement. Undoubtedly, we are all separated by our biological differences, but not necessarily just between the sexes. All men are not stronger than al ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
nges from 4:1 to 9:1 depending on the population, and it is thought that the ratio may be caused by biological differences. Barzman, Fieler, and Sallee (2004) say that boys tend to express the hyperac ... ) say that boys tend to express the hyperactivity-impulsivity criteria more than girls and that the biological differences may be from an overproduction of dopamine receptors in boys that is not seen ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
nges from 4:1 to 9:1 depending on the population, and it is thought that the ratio may be caused by biological differences. Barzman, Fieler, and Sallee (2004) say that boys tend to express the hyperac ... ) say that boys tend to express the hyperactivity-impulsivity criteria more than girls and that the biological differences may be from an overproduction of dopamine receptors in boys that is not seen ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology