PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Socalled, Gender Role, Philip Goldberg
10 Dec 2020
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Sexism: ambivalence and double standards blatant displays of sexism are less socially accepted today than in in the past, although they continue to exist. As with racism, researchers have been documenting and studying modern and implicit forms of sexism that tend to escape the notice of most people, but that can exert powerful discriminatory effects. There are some ways that sexism is different, however. Gender stereotypes are distinct from virtually all other stereotypes in that they are prescriptive rather than merely descriptive. That is, they indicate what many people in a given culture believe men and women should be. Few think that gay men should be artistic and sensitive or that old people should be forgetful and conservative; but many think that women should be nurturing and that men should be unemotional. Another way that sexism is unique concerns the degree to which the ingroup and outgroup members interact. Men and women are intimately familiar with each other.
