Transcript Sexuality

Sexuality
Interactional
 Sex community
 Clans
 Siblings
 Family talk
Organizational
 Marriage groupings
 Family hierarchies
Economic
 Family
Sexual
 Masculine vs Feminine characteristics
 Biological sex
 Social sex (gender)
Territorial
 Areas assigned to individuals because of their gender
 Areas assigned to individuals because of their sex
 Where sexual activity occurs
Temporal
 Time assigned to people on the basis of their sex
 When sexual activity begins (age) or stops
Instructional
 Teaching and learning sex roles
Recreational
 Sexual activity as play
 Type of play based on gender differentiation
 Type of play based on sexual differentiation
 Participation in recreation by sex
Protective
 Protection of sex and fertility
Exploitational
 Use of sex/gender
 Decoration
 Adornment
Sexuality in Intercultural Relationships
 Heteronormativity
 The assumption that heterosexuality is the only normal,
natural and universal form of sexuality.
 Heterosexism
 An ideological system that denies and denigrates any
nonheterosexual behavior, identity or community.
 What challenges do intercultural gay, lesbian, bi, trans and
queer relationships face?
 International, intercultural glbt relationships?
Culture and the workplace
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Geert Hofstede – sampled 100,000 IBM employees 19631973
Compared employee attitudes and values across 40
countries
Isolated 4 dimensions summarizing culture:
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Power distance
Individualism vs. collectivism
Uncertainty avoidance
Masculinity vs. feminity
Power Distance -- (Hofstede)
Degree of social inequality considered normal by
people
Distance between individuals at different levels of
a hierarchy
Scale: from equal (small power distance) to
extremely unequal (large power distance)
Individualism Vs. Collectivism (Hofstede)
Degree to which people in a country prefer to
act as individuals rather than in groups
Describes the relations between the individual
and his/her fellows
Uncertainty Avoidance (Hofstede)
 Degree of need to avoid uncertainty about the future
 Degree of preference for structured versus
unstructured situations
 Structured situations: have tight rules may or may not
be written down
 High uncertainty avoidance: people with more
nervous energy (vs easy-going), rigid society, "what
is different is dangerous."
Masculinity Vs. Femininity (Hofstede)
Division of roles and values in a society
Masculine values prevail:
 assertiveness, success, competition
Feminine values prevail:
 quality of life, maintenance of warm personal
relationships, service, care for the weak, solidarity