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3.2: Gender Role Socialization Flashcards

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A lifelong process of learning to become a member of the social world

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Socialization

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  • process of internalizing society’s values in order to adapt to one’s culture.
  • It influences how people behave as males and females in society.
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Socialization

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how much personality is determined by our biological inheritance.

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The Role of Nature

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how much personality is determined by social-cultural environment.

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The Role of Nurture

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Agents of Socialization

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  • Family
  • Peer
  • School
  • Workplace
  • Church
  • Mass Media
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  • most important agent of socialization for children.
  • Parents’ values and behavior patterns profoundly influence those of their daughters and sons.
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Family

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  • also help socialize us and may even induce us to violate social norms.
  • generally only affect short term interest unlike the family, which has long term influence.
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Peer

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  • teach a set of expectations about the work, profession, or occupations they will follow when they mature.
  • have the formal responsibility of imparting knowledge in those disciplines which are most central to adult functioning in our society.
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School

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a person meets people of different age groups and belonging to different social and cultural backgrounds.

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Workplace

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Television shows, movies, popular music, magazines, web sites, and other aspects of the mass media influence our political views; our tastes in popular culture; our views of women, people of color, and gays; and many other beliefs and practices.

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Mass Media

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fosters a shared set of socialized values that are passed on through society.
also uphold gender norms and contribute to their enforcement through socialization.

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Church

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a number of roles attached to a single status

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ROLE SET

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occurs when incompatible demands are built into a single status that a person occupies

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ROLE CONFLICT

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refers to the stress when, for any number of reasons, an individual cannot meet the demands of their social roles

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ROLE STRAIN

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occurs when people disengage from social roles that have been that have been central to their identity

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ROLE EXIT

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the process of learning and internalizing culturally approved ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving according to one’s gender.

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Gender Role Socialization

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are fixed, unquestioned beliefs, or images we carry in the back of our minds about women and men.

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Gender Stereotypes

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  • refers to any situation where a person is denied an opportunity or misjudged solely on the basis of their sex.
  • is when someone is treated unequally or disadvantageously based on their gender but not necessarily in a sexual nature
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Gender Discrimination

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highly resistant to change due to continuous exposure and reinforcement of gender differentiation.

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GENDER ROLES

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Agents of Socialization in the Context of Gender Role:

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  • Family
  • Education/School
  • Church/Religion
  • Mass Media
  • Language
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people treat boys and girls differently

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1st stage: Manipulation

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will direct their attention to gender appropriate objects exemplified by toys

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2nd stage: Canalization

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words used to tell children what they are.

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3rd stage: Verbal Appellation

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children are familiarized with gender appropriate tasks.

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4th stage: Activity Exposure

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reinforce sexist concepts e.g., textbooks depict stereotyped roles like females as mother, housewives, sewers, or well-behaved girls, and males as fathers, workers, or naughty adventurous little boys.

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Education/Schools

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  • communicate thoughts or ideas in the most pervasive institution of socialization.
  • Sexist terms, no matter how subtle, very easily maintain gender ideology e.g. using male “man” (whether by itself or as prefix/suffix) and “he” to refer to both sexes.
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Language

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depicting women as martyrs, self sacrificing and conservative, etc.

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Churches/ Religion

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Print and broadcast media are most effective socializing agent; subtle and often subconscious way plus long amount of time people expose themselves to media

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Mass Media

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deep-seated in the culture as well as beliefs and value systems of the society. Pervasive social control further reinforces, maintains, and sanctions gender roles.

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Gender Roles

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THE ABC MODEL

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A = Affect (Prejudice)

B = Behavior (Discrimination)

C = Cognition (Stereotypes)

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  • is an inaccurate view or opinion that many people hold about something or a group of people based solely or largely on the way they appear to others.
  • Fixed idea of a person
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Stereotype

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the kind that you deliberately think about.

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Explicit

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a person is unaware of their “stereotypical” outlook.

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Implicit

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  • Unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group (McLeod 2008).
  • Prejudice represents our emotional response upon learning of a person’s membership to a specific group like age, skin color, race, disabilities, generation, nationality, even religion, sex, sexual expression, gender expression and so on.
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Prejudices

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  • When one individual or group is treated less favorably than another due to a person’s or group’s background or specific personal characteristics, that behavior is known as discrimination.
  • Unjust treatment for a particular social group
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Discrimination

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All humans are born free and equal dignity and rights

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Freedom and Equality

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foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world.

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Inherent dignity of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family

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Manifestation of Gender Bias

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  • Marginalization
  • Subordination
  • Multiple Burden
  • Violence Against Women
  • Gender Stereotypes
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Process which forces women out into the periphery of economic and social life, decision making, and diminishing the value of activities in which they contribute to the national development process.

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Marginalization

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the institutionalized domination by men and women

VISION: Quality participation in decision making, recognition of capabilities

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Subordination

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involvement in the three spheres of work:
Reproduction
Production
Community work
parenting, housework, work in the public/private sector

VISION: Shared parenting, shared housework; shared breadwinning

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Multiple Burden

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Acts of instilling fear and inflicting pain with the aim to injure, or abuse a person usually women using intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, minimizing, denying, and blaming, using their children, using male privilege, using economic abuse, using coercion, and threats.

VISION: Freedom from violence, freedom from harassment, control over one’s body, non-threatening behavior, respect, trust and support, honesty and accountability, responsible parenting, shared responsibility, economic partnership, negotiation and fairness.

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Violence Against Women

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Fixed, unquestioned beliefs or images we carry in the back of our minds about men and women

VISION: Liberation from stereotyped images: nonsexist child rearing, non-sexist language

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Gender Stereotypes

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women and men, what they actually do, rather than relying on assumptions.

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Seeing

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women and men, their needs, priorities, and perspectives

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Hearing

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the value of women’s work

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Counting

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the full dignity of women and men

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Respecting

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about women and men and what happens to them.

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Caring

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