Gender

Question 1

Denscombe Fluid, not important

Answer 1

increase in female risk-taking behaviour, particularly smoking, being related to ‘ladette’ culture, where young women want to be seen as anything but the stereotype of women.

Question 2

Parsons Not fluid, important

Answer 2

who as a functionalist argues that gender roles are due to biology. Gender therefore is simply an extension of biological role. There is the expressive role (women is the child bearer) and the Instrumental Role (Breadwinner, male)

Question 3

Oakley Not fluid, important

Answer 3

three processes that create your gender identity. This is created through Manipulation which is the way that parents encourage or discourage behaviour on the case of appropriateness for the child’s sex. Canalisation is the way in which parents channel children’s interests into toys and activities that are seen ‘normal for the sex’. Finally, Verbal Applications are words that are used to channel there gender appropriate for the sex.

Question 4

Mac and Ghail (1994) Fluid, not important

Answer 4

refers to insecurity felt by working class men today. There has been a loss of the ‘breadwinner; identity with the decline of traditional male industries