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Title: Theories on Gender Identification and Sex Typing


1
Theories on Gender Identification and Sex Typing
  • How are they different ?

2
Sigmund Freuds Psychoanalytic
  • Basic Belief Sex typing is unavoidable
  • Environment plays NO role in sex typing

3
Freuds Stages of Gender Identification
  • PHALLIC STAGE Children become aware of genital
    differences at age 2 1/2 to 3
  • OEDIPAL CONFLICT
  • Boys desire Mom
  • Girls desire dad
  • Unconscious process
  • Occurs at age 5

4
Freuds Stages of Gender Identification
  • IDENTIFICATION Boys and girls act like their
    same gender parent and become sex typed.
  • Occurs at age 6 or 7

5
The Nurture of Gender
  • Social Learning Theory
  • Basic Belief
  • Modeling or Observation
  • ( Bandura)
  • Rewards and Punishments

6
Social Learning Theory
  • PARENTS PERCEPTIONS Parents consciously and
    unconsciously model gender roles.
  • Parents CAN promote gender neutral thinking.
  • PEER INFLUENCES
  • From school age and up community becomes
    increasingly important.
  • Dougie Story

7
Cognitive Developmental
  • Children are active agents of their own
    socialization
  • The process is internal/inside pressure
  • Mental Skills Environment
  • Gender Role Expectation

8
Gender Schema Theory
ASSIMILATION
Mental vase that you pour information into
Women are more emotional Women are better at
nurturing Women make good nurses and teachers
Schema
9
Are there only two genders?
As Nature Made Him- Extra Credit Book
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