PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sexual Intercourse
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Things have changed men wear pink now. David bakan identifies two dynamic principles of nature: agency and communion. Agency manifests itself in isolation, alienation, and aloneness. Communion manifests itself in contact, openness, and union. Agency manifests itself in the urge to master. Bem considers the human condition as a composite of masculine and feminine. In this conceptualization people who are androgynous exhibit high levels of both. Sandra bem"s androgyny scale masculine and feminine characteristics. Gender differences emerge more clearly as we age and become influenced by gender roles from society norms. Often children have very strict ideas about gender-appropriate behavior. They have more gender-stereotyped expectations than those of adults. Their conceptions are less flexible than at any other point in the life span. Some aspects of psychoanalytic theory have been supported. Still, many developmentalists have searched for explanations of gender differences other than freud"s. Gender identity- the perception of oneself as male or female.
