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Pyschological models of gender identity suggest that gender identity is the result of ..
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Childhood development
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The belief that the cultures in which we are raised determine our character in which we are raised determine our character and personalities, emotional lives and behaviours
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Cultural determinism
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Maintains that a sex based divsions of labour was necessary to maintaining the society
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Functionalism
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Several theorists have tried to explain the sexual division of labour and gender inequality by reference to..
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Large structural forces that transform soceities organizing principles (private property, demands of war, and importance of male bonding to hunting/gathering as possible explainations)
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Intro of market economy shifted egalitarian roles to ...
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Gender inequality and male dominace ( to ensure that they can pass down their inheritance to their sons, they supported monogamy and more controlling of their wives)
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How does a culture create warriors who are fierce and strong?
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(1) reward the men with services of women
(2) excluded women from force (female infanticide to ensure competition among males) (patrilineality - for sons to carry out their fathers military force) |
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These theorists believe that men lack the tie with children (unlike mothers) and to build these ties they exclude women from hunts and have male bonding (hunts)
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Descent theorists
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These theorists do not share the same beleifs as descent theorists, rather they beleive that they should turn women into sex slaves to excahnge an alliance among men
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Alliance theorists
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What are the factors that seem to determine womens status in society? Under what conditions is women's status imrpoved, and under what conditions is it minimized?
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- when society wants more physical strenth and highly developed motor skills - more different socializations
-the larger the family, the larger the differences |
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What are two of the key determinants of women's status ?
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Divsion of labour around child care
control over property |
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When men partake in child care, what happens to womens status?
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Goes up
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When males are uninvolved in their mothers lives, children develop.. (to fear and put down women in a way to display masculinity)
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Hypermasculinity
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Women had lower female status when they ___ with food supply
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Supply too little or too much
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Specific gender rituals are tied in with ...
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Reproduction
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The segregation of the sexes through rituals that provide a sense of identity and group membership
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Ritual segregation
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