Cultural influences on gender
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- Cultural influences on gender roles
- Cultural variations
- There are also significant variation which Mead described as cultural RELATIVISM.
- We can include historical changes when considering sex differences, in UK w continue to do domestic duties.
- However, the gender gap is ever decreasing, which supports the role of changing social influences across cultures.
- Margaret Mead
- Studied social groups in Papua New Guinea , the tribes expressed their gender role in different ways
- Arapesh- m/w were gentle
- Mundugumar- m/w were both violent
- Tchambuli- w were dominant and m stayed at home.
- Studied social groups in Papua New Guinea , the tribes expressed their gender role in different ways
- AO2 Mead
- Mead later changed her view as she realised that in all societies the men were aggressive than the women.
- This suggests some behaviours are innate and universal but the degree to which these behaviours are expressed is relative to that particular culture.
- Mead later changed her view as she realised that in all societies the men were aggressive than the women.
- Cultural variations
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