PSYC 3390 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Egocentrism, Pressure Cooking, Casual Dating
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Adolescent boys and girls in traditional cultures often have very different lives and spend little time in each other"s presence. Girls typically work alongside their mothers from an early age. During adolescence socialization narrows for girls while it becomes broader for boys. Girls" budding sexuality is more likely to be tightly restricted. Often closely monitored by older female family members. Manhood is something that has to be achieved no biological marker: girls have a biological marker. They have to prove it: not a given you can fail, be an outcast, not get married, etc. How to be a man: 3 capacities: Procreate: these capacities also involve developing character qualities. Spend most of their time with other males. Sharp disparities in the socialization of males and females. Thus, disrupting her menstrual cycle and endangering her health. Girl to woman: 4 areas where the lives of adolescent girls were narrowly constricted: Just teacher, seamstress, or stay at home.
