SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Masculinity, Margaret Mead, Gender Role
15 Jul 2020
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Gender roles: expectations regarding the proper behavior, activities, and attitudes of males and females. Affect not only how we behave, but how re react to others. We socially construct our behaviors so that male-female differences are exaggerated. People who deviate from specific gender roles are seen as deviant and often, homosexual. Motherhood mandate: women are expected to marry and have children. Women"s success is measured in whether their kids turn out all right, whereas men are measured by their careers! Boys and men are also restricted in the behaviors that they can do - they are supposed to like gym, sports, and physical activities . Specific elements of masculinity: no sissy stuff: no vulnerability, success element - masculinity proven in sports, work, aggressive- use force to deal with others, sexual - initiate control all sexual relations, self- reliant- keep your cool. Margaret mead looked cross-culturally at gender, in order to separate nature from nurture .
