Practice Exam Question 4

Outline and evaluate The view that gender identities are still important in the UK

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Conell (1995) believes there is still a traditional set of gender codes that still dominate the UK called hegemonic masculinity and femininity, and how men are still seen as the 'breadwinners' and woman are seen as 'delicate' this shows how gender identities are still important within the UK. Functionalists believe that we are assigned our identity at birth including our gender identity this is to keep social order within society, Talcott Parsons believes that society…