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What does this picture tell us about gender roles?. Today’s session. Gender. How would social learning theory explain the acquisition of gender role & identity?. Child attends to a gender role model. They learn gender-relevant behaviour. They practice the behaviour themselves.
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Gender • How would social learning theory explain the acquisition of gender role & identity?
Child attends to a gender role model They learn gender-relevant behaviour They practice the behaviour themselves They may imitate if reinforcement is available Encoding Imitation Motivation Social learning & gender Attention
Social learning & gender • Where will the child find suitable people to act as gender role models? • What types of vicarious reinforcement and punishment may motivate the child (not) to imitate?
Gender role models • Parents/carers • Siblings • Peers • TV, films, magazines, Internet • Educational materials
A research question • Are women and men represented differently in children’s educational materials? • Why is this important for SLT? • Do you think they are? • How could we investigate?
Content Analysis • A research method for producing quantitative data from qualitative material
Decisions • Sample • Coding units • Coding categories
‘Ladybird’ books from 1970s • Pictorial representations of adults • Occupation: • Homemaker • Manual • Clerical • Professional
Coding sheet • Each adult figure should be coded • Adult figures must be coded only once • Use ‘other’ as infrequently as possible
Content analysis • Did you have any problems coding the pictures? • Do you think our data will be a valid representation of what is in the books?
Report & discuss the results • Explain what was found • Comment on whether the results are consistent with our hypothesis • Assess the validity of the data • External: representativeness of sample • Internal: validity of coding