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Gender Typing

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

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  1. Gender Typing • Gender typing projects societies expectations regarding people's behavior based upon their biological sex.

  2. Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • 1. genetics – genes that determine sex also determine behavior

  3. Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • 2. hormones – hormonal differences between males and females cause different patterns of development leading to different behaviours

  4. Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • Psychoanalytic Theory – boys and girls learn gender roles from their same sex parent

  5. Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • Social-Learning Theory – gender differences are modeled by parents and reinforced by positive and negative reactions

  6. Theories for Explaining Gender Typing • Gender-Schema Theory – children form gender-based self-conceptions, which guide their behaviour

  7. Rank

  8. Theories • 1. genetics • 2. hormones • 3. psychoanalytic • 4. social-learning • 5. gender-schema

  9. Stay At Home Dads and Gender Typing • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C3qNVXdnRw&feature=related

  10. 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?

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