Psychology 2074A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Role, Grammatical Gender, Role Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2074A/B
• Professor: Rachel calogero

Document Summary

Communion and agency underlie gender stereotypes: communion: associated more with women, female-types occupational roles, feminine appearance and expression, agency: associated more with men, male-typed occupation roles, masculine appearance and expression, not opposing dimensions, but separate dimensions. Which theory can account for change: technology decreases physically demanding jobs and increases cognitively oriented jobs- both genders do similar jobs. Limitations of these theories: both theories oversimplify reality by relying on binary conceptualization of sex and gender, heteronormative, tenents evolutionary psychology are difficult, if not impossible, to test empirically. Varieties of stereotypes: descriptive stereotypes: describe what people from a group are like, prescriptive stereotypes: what people from a group. "men should be competitive: proscriptive stereotypes: what people from a group. Ideal manhood and avoidance of femininity: men assigned to one of two conditions, braid hair of female mannequin and tie in pink bows or braid rope, then choose next task: puzzles or punching.