_____ refers to the properties of a person that determine his or her classification as male or female.
Stratification refers to a system in which groups of people experience unequal access to basic, yet highly valuable, social resources. Canada is characterized by gender stratification (as well as stratification of race, income, occupation, and the like). A person's sex, as determined by his or her biology, does not always correspond with their gender; therefore, the terms sex and gender are not interchangeable. Gender is a term that refers to social or cultural distinctions associated with being male, female, or intersex. Each person has a sex, a gender, and a gender identity. These are all aspects of your sexuality. They are all about who you are, and they are all different, but related. Sex is biological. It includes our genetic makeup, our hormones, and our body parts, especially our sex and reproductive organs. They are all about who you are, and they are all different, but related. 1  Sex is biological. It includes our genetic makeup, our hormones, and our body parts, especially our sex and reproductive organs. 2  Gender refers to society's expectations about how we should think and act as girls and boys, and women and men. Gender roles are the way people act, what they do and say, to express being a girl or a boy, a woman or a man. These characteristics are shaped by society. Gender roles vary greatly from one culture to the next, from one ethnic group to the next, and from one social class to another. Certain psychological disorders respond better to one. therapy than another or to one drug than another.Classification also helps clinicians pre-. dict behavior: schizophrenia, for example, follows a more or less predictable course. Finally, classification helps researchers identify populations with similar patterns of. Table 3.5 shows an example of a diagnosis in the DSM multiaxial system for a. hypothetical case. The person receives two diagnoses, an Axis I diagnosis of generalized. anxiety disorder (discussed in Chapter 6) and an Axis II diagnosis of dependent per-. sonality disorder (discussed in Chapter 13). sex The distinguishing property, quality, or assemblage of properties by which organisms are classified as female, male, or intersex on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions. sexuality People's sexual interest in and attraction to others; their capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. A person’s sex, as determined by his or her biology, does not always correspond with his or her gender. Therefore, the terms sex and gender are not interchangeable. A baby boy who is born with male genitalia will be identified as male. As he grows, however, he may identify with the feminine aspects of his culture. Classification and Assessment of Abnormal Behavior 71. The authors of the DSM recognize that their use of the term mental disorder is prob-. lematic because it perpetuates a long-standing but dubious distinction between mental. and physical disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, 2000).
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