Which of the following situations provides an example of how the social categori

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Which of the following situations provides an example of how the social categories of gender influence the biology of sex? parents who refuse to let their three-year-old son paint his fingernails how people react differently to two women who hold hands in public versus two men who hold hands in public the decision to raise a male infant born with a “small” (e.g., a phallus measuring less than 2 cm in length) as a female how a “one-sex” model of human bodies dominated thinking among ancient Greeks, but a “two-sex” model dominates current Western biological thought

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Gender is basically a socially constructued category. What we think of women and men and what they are supposed to be is produced by the society in which we live. The correct answer for the above question is option C i.e  the decision to raise a male infant born with a "small" male reproductive part (e.g., a phallus measuring less than 2 cm in length) as a female. It acts as an example to depict that social categories define the sex of an indiviual.

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