Gender and Sex

. Gender is one of the most important foctor to study sociology. We usually focus on social difference gender from sex, but I'm going to focus on the biological differences between male and female. In addition to sex organs and sex chromosomes, the average male is 10 percent taller, 20 percent heavier, and 35 percent stronger in the upper body than the average female. Moreover women, for reasons still somewhat undetermined, tend to outlive men. People guess that this is because the riskier lifestyle of men. 

 Now, in addition to the biological differences, Are there any more differences? The answer is yes. We are going to talk about the difference gender from sex. Sociologists differentiate gender from sex. It allows social scientist to study influences on sexuality without confusing the social and psychological aspects with the biological and genetic aspects.

Sex refer to complementary groups that combine genetic material in order to reproduce, a process called sexual reproduction. Therefore, reflective of the reproductive functions that an individual is capable of performing at some point during its life cycle, and not of the mating types, which genetically can be more than two. 

While Gender is the socially constructed component of human sexuality. Gender is an inner feeling that you are male, female, both, neither, or somewhere in between. Gender roles are, unlike sex, mutable, meaning they can change. Gender is not, however, as simple as just choosing a role to play but is also influenced by parents, peers, culture, and society.

So there could be gender discordance. When gender identity and biological sex conflict, the result is sex discordance. Gender discordance leads to the understanding that what we traditionally understand to be feminine and masculine characteristics are social (and cultural) constructions.