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gender
Flashcards do conjunto (9)
- 1Gender role socialisation- Norman - boys and girls dressed differently from early age, given different toys and told to do different activities
- Byrne - teachers encourage boys to be tough and to not be weak, girls are expected to be helpful, clean, tidy
- Murphy + Elwood - boys read hobby/information texts whilst girls read stories about people - 2Gender domains- Browne and Ross - shaped by early experiences and expectations of adults
- boys and girls 'territory'
- children are more confident in their gender domain - 3Gendered subject images- Kelly - science teachers are more likely to be men, in science lessons boys will take over the apparatus and act like its theirs
- Colley - computer studies is a male subject because it's working with machines (gender domain) and the tasks lack abstract thinking which girls favour - 4Single sex schooling- those who attend singe sex schools tend to hold less stereotyped subject images
- 5Gender identity and peer pressure- boys tend to opt it of music or dance as it may attract a negative response from peers
- Paechter - girls who are 'sporty' have to cope with an image that contradicts their conventional female style
- Dewar - male students would call girls 'lesbian' or 'butch' if they appeared interested in sport
- peers police each other's actions
- cant stray from gender identity as you risk a negative response
- absence of boys may mean there's less pressure to conform to restrictive stereotypes - 6Gendered career options- women's jobs = childcare, nursing
- over half of all women have jobs in secretarial positions, clerical and personal services
- sex-typing will affect what boys and girls see as possible or acceptable jobs
- vocational courses are more gender specific
- Fuller - w/c girls had ambitions to go into jobs like childcare, hair or beauty which reflects their w/c habitus - 7Gender role socialisationThe process of learning the behaviour expected of males and females in society
- 8Gender domainsTasks and activities that are seen as male or female 'territory'
- 9Gendered subject images
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- A level Sociology FlashCards sobre gender, criado por tom reece em 05-03-2019.
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