SOC 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Midlife Crisis, F-Test, Intersectionality
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Beliefs are are influenced by our life experiences from infancy in addition to cultural influences, personalities, and behaviors. Frued-> interactions with family most crucial in shaping gender/gender identity. Pass through stages on path to adult gender identity: oral-pleasure through food (breast feeding, anal- (pleasure of bodily functions (potty trained, genital- oedipal crisis/penis envy. Boys must detach from mother and identity with father. > problem: their mothers were more affectionate and fathers more remote. Oedipal crisis - boy desires mother-realizes he competes with his father for her. Boys cease to be feminine and become masculine. Girls (penis envy) realizing the only way to maintain identification with mother is to be possessed by a man. Links gender identity to sexual orientation-making homosexuality an issue of gender, not morality. > homosexuality happens when something in this developmental process fails. Freud reinforces stereotypes- boys initiate sex, girls are passive. Through cognitive filters we process and interpret information about gender.
