SOC 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Role Theory
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On freud: gender identity is developed in stages through our experiences with our body in combination with our experiences. The boys who are unable to go through the oedipal crisis become homosexual you must be able leave your mom and go to your dad. Id biological drive, operating on the pleasure principle. Ego sets up limits for the id, mediating the needs of the id and the moral standards of the superego. External world social environment which limits our possibilities for gratification. (your parents when you are a child. ) Limitations and criticisms: overgeneralization, universalistic, and essentialists, feminists (karen. Sex-role theo(cid:396)ies: a(cid:374)alyzes i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s so(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374) i(cid:374)to app(cid:396)op(cid:396)iate ge(cid:374)de(cid:396) (cid:396)oles a(cid:374)d identities. Codification of masculinity and femininity in the 1930s (terman and miles, 1936). M-f test: an empirical measure to determine how masculine or feminine an individual is. The test was used in mcgill university in 1978 to differentiate between male and female subjects.
