This document discusses concepts related to personhood, family, and society. It defines key terms like biological sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. It describes different types of families like nuclear, extended, single-parent, etc. It defines society and discusses both positive and negative relations between individuals and society, giving examples like racism, xenophobia, and sexism. The goal of education for citizenship is described as providing knowledge and skills to play an active role in society as informed and responsible citizens.

1. Person, Family, Society
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2. Introduce yourself:
• My name is … and I am …..
Years old.
• I live in …. And my favourite
sport/music/… is…. I have …
brothers / sisters.
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3. Person: boys and girls
• Biological sex: biological
differences between males and
females, primary sex
characteristics (genitals) and
secondary sex characteristics
(testosterone vs. estrogen,
beard,…)
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4. Person: boys and girls
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5. Person: boys and girls
• Gender identity: refers to the
socially constructed roles,
behaviours, activities, and
attributes that a given society
considers appropriate for men
and women.
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6. Person: boys and girls
• To put it another way:
• "Male" and "female" are sex
categories, while "masculine"
and "feminine" are gender
categories.
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7. Person: boys and girls
• Activity 1: Sex or Gender?
• Activity 2: Video “Boys and girls”.
• Activity 3: Group activity. Gender
stereotypes.
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8. Group rules
• Use quite voices
• Get along
• Respect other’s ideas
• On task
• Participate
• Stay in your group
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9. Person: boys and girls
• Transsexual: usually people who
are born with typical male or
female anatomies but feel as
though they’ve been born into the
“wrong body”.
• People who have intersex
conditions have anatomy that is
not considered typically male or
female.
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10. Person
• Sexual Orientation refers to one’s
romantic, emotional, or sexual attraction to
another person of
– The opposite sex (a heterosexual or
“straight” sexual orientation),
– The same sex (a homosexual or
gay/lesbian sexual orientation), or
– Both (a bisexual orientation).
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11. Types of family:
• A nuclear family
consists of a
mother, father, and
their biological
children.
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12. Types of family:
• An extended
family is a family
group including
relatives other than
parents and
children
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13. Types of family:
• Single parent: only
one parent in the
household raising
the children.
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14. Types of family:
• Childless family:
families without
children at home.
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15. Types of family:
• Blended or step
family: it is a family
unit where one or
both parents have
children from a
previous
relationship, but
they have combined
to form a new family
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16. Types of family:
• Adoptive and
foster family:
parents with
adoptive and foster
children.
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17. Types of family:
• Same-sex family:
children raised by
same-sex couples.
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18. Exercise
• What type or types of family are those?

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27. 3. Society
• We live in a Society
and the human being
is, as the ancient
Greek philosopher
Aristotle once said, a
“social animal”.

28. 3. Society
• Definition of Society: is the
group of relationships within
which we move, which allow
us to develop and live.
• We can live in society thanks
to the effort of all of its
members. Each of us has a
function in society, and we are
able to live, and even enjoy,
thanks to society and its social,
political and cultural
institutions. Society works
thanks to rules or laws.

29. Relations between individuals
and society:
• Negative relations: based on
discrimination and exclusion of
some members. Examples:
Racism: it is a belief that one
race is superior to the other or the
practice of treating a person or group
of people differently on the basis of
their race.
Xenophobia: is the unreasoned
fear of that which is perceived to be
foreign or strange.
Sexism: is prejudice or
discrimination based on a person's
sex or gender.
Homophobia: fear or dislike of
homosexuals.

30. Racism
• Video: A class divided
1. Intention of the teacher.
2. Describe the experiment.
3. Did she get the target?

31. Xenophobia
• Video: El viaje de Said
– Write down the xenophobic expressions you
listen in the video.

32. Sexism

33. Sexism
• Look for three sexist images in magazines
or in the internet and glue them into your
notebook.

34. Relations between individuals
and society:
• Positive relations: based on
harmony and integration of all
their members.
Respect for the different.
Conscious of your rights
and duties.
Civic attitude: empathy,
dialogue, tolerance, respect
for the public property, etc.

35. Education for Citizenship
• It is about the
knowledge, skills and
understanding to play
an active, effective
part in society as
informed, critical
citizens who are
socially and morally
responsible.

36. This is the end of unit 1