Gender Flashcards
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Peer influences in childhood
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- By the age of 3, most children can identify whether they’re a boy or a girl
- They start to want to play with children who are of the same sex of them
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Peer influences in childhood
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- By the age of 3, most children can identify whether they’re a boy or a girl
- They start to want to play with children who are of the same sex of them
3
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Gendered Play
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- Time spent with a child’s own gender has an impact on their own gender identity
- Same sex peers act as models for their behaviour
4
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Peer influence in adolescence
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- Adolescents compare themselves to others
- This is often when one becomes aware that they are transgender
- Gender typicality
5
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What is gender typicality?
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- How much someone feels like they are like the other members of the same category
6
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NSI explains gender because…
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- NSI suggests how males/ females SHOULD behave
7
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Gender Non- Conformity
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- The pressure to conform can cause a lot of stress
- Non- conformity can cause bullying, and gender dysphoria
- It is more socially acceptable for a girl to show masculine traits than for a boy to show feminine traits
- Male traits are highly valued in society E.g. assertiveness
8
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Explanation…
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- Gender segregation does explain development of gender identity
- And it reinforces their gender typical interests
9
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Non Conformity explanations
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- There is a strong link between gender non conformity and bullying
- Holt et al (2015)- Half of the children referred for gender dysphoria have experienced bullying
- Schiffman (2016)- Gender atypical adolescents more likely to be bullied than gender typical adolescents
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Consequence of Gender in social approach
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- There are other factors to be considered
- Not all bullying is gender related
- Finnish study- 75% of those with gender dysphoria who had experienced bullying had said that the bullying had started before they identified as gender atypical
- Their experience of bullying had nothing to do with gender atypicality
