PSYC 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gender Role, Nuclear Family, Dualism
Document Summary
Argued that the need to fulfill gender roles comes from society requiring individuals to fill two types of roles (sociological) not from individual need: instrumental (male, expressive (female): emotional, caring. Role allocation is not smooth (nuclear family and public-domestic divide, boys stay longer with their mothers in western societies, girls have their role model mother): boys have more identity crisis and difficulty developing their masculinity. Boys go through crisis in efforts to identify with their roles and reject femininity bad boys, revolt against institutions. Girls rebel against masculine superiority (not institutions) and has to depend on a man for her security. She may rebel against feminine roles: criticisms. Simplistic binary model and politically conservative (dualisms - male/female, roles, system needs change will disrupt society). Involves coercion (roles not natural, people rebel and society enforces/demands them). When people rebel against these, we correct them and force them to conform to the.
