PSY323H1 Lecture Notes - Essentialism, Role Theory, Gender Role
Document Summary
Discussion about miss representation & dominance and interdependence. We learn to put women at a disadvantage through our cultural institutions. And the widespread belief that women are not at a disadvantage. Made the point of how differently women and men are treated in our society and to raise awareness so that we can realize that we need to change society. Media simplifies, objectifies, trivializes women lack of female political efficacy and eventually leads it to become true. Gender essentialism- when we see opposition it"-our stereotypical ideas of gender are constantly being reinforced. We tend to receive punishment when we stray outside of the norms set for each gender. There"s a lot of gender influence on us to follow gender roles. Where did these specific stereotypes come from: the evolutionary approach. Uses ideas from darwin"s theory to explain gender differences in preferences. The evolutionary approach argues that gender roles evolved out of inherent sex differences.
