SOCC38H3 Lecture 1: Week 1
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What do we mean by aggression: male forms of aggression, physical aggression, talking loudly during conversations, being coercive/controlling, recognize that aggression is associated with male forms of aggression (false) there are lots of social training about behaviour learn how to be men or women, naturally or being trained by society (false) research does not show connection between testosterone and aggression, what would make men be biologically aggressive (false) person"s traits/characteristics, passive or active, some men that are aggressive and some that aren"t. Women have the physical capacity to bear children (biological difference) therefore, they are more nurturing: we may also see a lot of women who are not nurturing to their children, not true that all women want kids and sometimes, those that want may later find out that they don"t, men sometimes also takes very nurturing roles (false) stereotype of nuclear family, males going to work, females staying at home to take care of children.
