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Gender Typing. Gender typing projects societies expectations regarding people's behavior based upon their biological sex. Theories for Explaining Gender Typing. 1. genetics – genes that determine sex also determine behavior. Theories for Explaining Gender Typing.
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Gender Typing • Gender typing projects societies expectations regarding people's behavior based upon their biological sex.
Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • 1. genetics – genes that determine sex also determine behavior
Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • 2. hormones – hormonal differences between males and females cause different patterns of development leading to different behaviours
Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • Psychoanalytic Theory – boys and girls learn gender roles from their same sex parent
Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • Social-Learning Theory – gender differences are modeled by parents and reinforced by positive and negative reactions
Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • Gender-Schema Theory – children form gender-based self-conceptions, which guide their behaviour
Theories • 1. genetics • 2. hormones • 3. psychoanalytic • 4. social-learning • 5. gender-schema
Stay At Home Dads and Gender Typing • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C3qNVXdnRw&feature=related
Questions • What are your thoughts on stay at home dads? • Do you think there is a negative stigma for stay at home dads? Discuss • Is it fair?