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 ...

(5 pages) 223 0 4.3 Dec/2002

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 ...

(11 pages) 276 0 4.4 May/2003

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 ...

(10 pages) 306 0 4.0 Aug/2003

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 ...

(5 pages) 312 0 3.0 Nov/2003

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 ...

(2 pages) 34 0 4.6 Mar/2004

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 ...

(1 pages) 65 0 3.0 Apr/2004

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 ...

(6 pages) 170 0 5.0 May/2004

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 ...

(4 pages) 97 0 4.3 May/2004

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 ...

(7 pages) 121 0 5.0 Nov/2004

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 ...

(2 pages) 57 0 4.0 May/2005

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 ...

(11 pages) 402 2 4.5 Jan/2006

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 ...

(8 pages) 52 0 4.2 Mar/2006

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) ...

(2 pages) 53 0 4.0 Aug/2007

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 ...

(6 pages) 53 0 2.5 Sep/2007

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 ...

(3 pages) 80 0 3.7 Feb/2008

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 ...

(4 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2009

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 ...

(5 pages) 29 1 3.3 May/2009

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 ...

(10 pages) 11 0 0.0 Jul/2009

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 ...

(23 pages) 97 0 5.0 Sep/2009

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 ...

(11 pages) 43 0 0.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology