the biological and environmental factors intersected to create gender identity - biological factors interact with social factors to create a person's gender
signposting
a child's sex acts as a signpost determining all of their future treatment
once a child's sex is labelled, the social context exerts itself
differential treatment follows after the gender labelling has occured
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Smith & Lloyd
Baby X Baby Y
babies were dressed in unisex snowsuits
they were labelled with either male or female names
the results showed that the babies were treated differently depending on their percieved sex
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Young
Albanian sworn virgins
females in Albania adopted the male gender
they cut their hair short, dressed like males, did male jobs etc
they swore never to marry again
they were also given the full rights and privalges that males had
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Mac an Ghail
There were four types of masculinity found in British schools
New Entrepenuers
Macho Lads
Real Englishmen
Academic Achievers
this is showing that there is social factors affecting people's gender causing them to act in the ways that the do
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Social Role Theory
Eagly & Wood devised this theory
social roles were constructed due to sex role allocation which then lead to gender development to take place
roles that were assigned to people based on their biological sex lead to physiological differences occuring in people
hormone differences in gender are viewed as being socially influenced
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Evaluation
most of the studies are conducted as field experiments - this makes it high in mundane realism and external validity
the results can easily be generalised to the population
they arent very scientific - the methods used and the data collected are suggesting that psychology isn't a science
it says that there is more than one factor causing a person's gender - this means that the approach isn't deterministic or reductionist
nature v nurture debat - the approach says that both nature and nurture influence a person's gender
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