ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hegemonic Masculinity, Wodaabe, Tostan
25 Apr 2018
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Early 20th century academia dominated by biological determinism. Margaret mead motivated to do this study on gender in three different societies because the social scientists have always thought gender was the result of biology. In fact, the governing theoretical principal that underlined how scientist thought about human behaviour was by biological determinism. Social scientist tried to argue that adolescence behaviour in us and canada are the same e(cid:448)er(cid:455)(cid:449)here (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:862)e(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e(cid:863) e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es the sa(cid:373)e hor(cid:373)o(cid:374)al (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges as a result of pu(cid:271)ert(cid:455) which changes behaviour. Mead studied in three different societies and found that is not the case. Teenagers act differently in papua new guinea and other societies. She initiated the study of gender in the context of anthropology. Not many anthropologists or social scientists studied gender and sex in great detail because of the assumption that gender is the result of your biological sex. furthermore, not a lot of detail on women.
