Language Helps Create Social Reality, Beginning with the Division of People

question 101

Essay

Language helps create social reality, beginning with the division of people into worlds of "maleness" and "femaleness." Write an essay in which you explain how language involving gender creates different worlds for women and men.Think of specific ways in which everyday language places the two sexes in different and unequal social positions.

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Definitions:

Broca's Area

A region in the frontal lobe of the brain that is involved in language processing, speech production, and comprehension.

Wernicke's Area

A region of the brain that is important for language comprehension, located in the posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus in the dominant cerebral hemisphere.

Sodium-Potassium Pump

A cell membrane protein that uses ATP to transport sodium ions out of and potassium ions into a cell, maintaining the cell's electrochemical gradient.

Resting Potential

Membrane potential of an inactive neuron.