Sex-role stereotypes Flashcards

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What is a person’s sex?

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Whether they are biologically male or female

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What is a person’s gender?

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The way a person identifies themselves as having social and psychological characteristics of male or female

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What are sex-role stereotypes?

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Types of qualities and characteristics that are seen as appropriate for each sex

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What does being taught sex-role stereotypes create?

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Norms which people feel pressured to conform to

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What are roles considered to have been learned from?

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Socialisation

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What are 5 traditional sex-roles for women?

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Dependent, submissive, domestic, nurturing, emotional

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What are 5 traditional sex roles for men?

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Independent, dominant, aggressive, suppress feelings, main provider for family

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What did Seavey et al (1975) find?

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  • Told adults that a baby dressed in yellow is either a boy, girl or wasn’t told the gender, in a room with a ball, a doll and a plastic ring
  • Both males and females gave the baby they were told to be a girl a doll
  • Both males and females gave the plastic ring (a non-gendered toy) to the baby they thought to be a boy
  • If not told gender, they tried to guess the gender of the baby from its perceived strength
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What did Langlois and Downs (1980) find?

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  • Compared peers’ to mothers’ reactions to
    preschoolers’ playing with the opposite gender toys.
  • When boys played with girls’ toys, the mothers accepted it whereas the male peers ridiculed them and even hit them
  • Shows intolerance of male peers for cross-gender behaviours
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What did Sood (2014) find?

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  • Only 12% of primary school teachers in UK were male as teaching is seen to be a female profession
  • Sex role stereotypes affect adult career choices
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What did Renzetti and Curran (1992) find?

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  • Teachers gave positive praise to boys for their ‘cleverness’ and girls for their ‘neatness’
  • Teachers enforce sex-role stereotypes
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How are sex-role stereotypes passed onto children?

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  • Interactions with adults
  • Different types of toys
  • Children policing roles
  • Education pressures to study gender suitable subjects
  • Media
  • Culture
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Criticism of sex role stereotypes?

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  • Vary greatly by culture, suggesting they are culturally transmitted
  • Categorising behaviours as either male or female may place restrictive barriers
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AO3 content to include -

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  • Media is criticised for stereotypical presentation of sex-roles. It is harmful, especially with a negative portrayal of female sex role stereotypes
  • Might see a movement towards more uniform sex-role stereotypes as cultural beliefs break down
  • is gender a social construct?
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