The notion of social structure as relationship between different entities or groups or as enduring and relatively stable patterns of relationship emphasises the idea that society is grouped into struc ...
The first sociologist to work on 'intersexuality' was Harold Garfinkel in 1967 using a method derived from sociological phenomenology he called ethnomethodology. He based his analysis on the everyday ...
In humans, biological sex is determined by five factors present at birth:the number and type of sex chromosomes;the type of gonads—ovaries or testicles;the sex hormones,the internal reproductive anat ...
Sexual dimorphismMain article: Sexual dimorphismCommon Pheasants are sexually dimorphic in both size and appearance.Many animals and some plants have differences between the male and female sexes in s ...
Feminist philosophers such as Judith Butler and Simone de Beauvoir contend that femininity and masculinity are created through repeated performances of gender; these performances reproduce and define ...
Tara Williams has suggested that modern notions of femininity began during the English medieval period at the time of the bubonic plague in the 1300s. Women in the Early Middle Ages were referred to s ...
Traditional avenues for men to gain honor were that of providing adequately for their families and exercising leadership. Raewyn Connell has labelled the traditional male roles and privileges hegemoni ...
Everett Rogers wrote the book Diffusion of Innovations in 1962. There would be five editions of the book through 2003, during which time the statistical analysis of how people adopt new ideas and tech ...
Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". In this definition career is understood to relate to a range of aspe ...
Brain structure differences associated with transsexualism do not exist in isolation. Similar brain structure differences have been noted between gay and heterosexual men, and between lesbian and hete ...
Writing for health professionals in the second edition of his reference work Sexual Hygiene and Pathology in 1965, psychiatrist John F. Oliven of Columbia University used the lexical compound trans+ge ...
Symptoms of GID in children include disgust at their own genitalia, social isolation from their peers, anxiety, loneliness and depression. According to the American Psychological Association, transgen ...
There is no commonly accepted modern definition of feudalism, at least among scholars. The adjective feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun feudalism, often used in a political and propag ...
Privacy can mean different things in different contexts; different people, cultures, and nations have different expectations about how much privacy a person is entitled to or what constitutes an invas ...
Ric?ur was born in 1913 in Valence, Dr?me, France to a devout Protestant family, making him a member of a religious minority in Catholic France.Ric?ur's father died in a 1915 World War I battle whe ...
