SOC 152A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Androgyny, Mass Media, Peer Group
4/18/18
●Gender roles
○All those behaviors , besides sexual behaviors, that make males and females
different
■For example, girls sit with legs closed and males sit with them open
●Old view that males and females were two separate things - binaries
●New view: there is a spectrum - androgyny
○Androgyny is people who are in the middle of the spectrum
■Having both masculine & feminine interests & behaviors
●⅓ of college students are androgynous
1. An experiment
a. People are tested to see if they are traditional (T) or androgynous (A)
b. Than paires as T-T or A-A
i. T-T males and females are distant in interests & communication styles
& do not coordinate well.
ii. A-A males and females are closer in interests & communication styles,
finding it easy & rewarding to interact & share
1. Androgynous people have closer relationships
2. A UCLA study:
a. How heterosexual people are perceived by their partner
i. Males perceived as more adog than females
ii. Males feared being perceived as self-centered, insensitive machos.
iii. Females feared being too assertive & competent.
1. Tho this is not true of all people
iv. People tend to become more androg w increasing age
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