Gender Identity

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1. What is Androgyny?

  • The change from being one gender to another.
  • A sociologists
  • When people identify themselves are being neither masculine or feminine but rather a third gender.
  • Someone who wants to be the opposite sex.
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2. Who argued that gender socialisation takes place in 4 main ways?

  • Willis
  • Francis
  • Ann Oakley
  • Niaomi Wolf

3. What was the overal research about?

  • Role-play with children.
  • Teaching young children to behave in an expected manner.
  • Childrens behaviour
  • Gender stereotypes

4. What is different activities?

  • Channelling the child's interests into toys and activities seen as normal for his or her sex.
  • Parents encourge behaviour which is seen as normal for the child's sex and discourage what is seen as deviant.
  • Children are encouraged to involove themselves in different activities. e.g. boys and outdoors
  • Names that children are called which each them to identify with the appropriate gender. e.g. good girl

5. What is gender identity?

  • The psychological label we apply to ourselves when we say 'i am a man' or 'i am a woman'
  • Whether we are male or female
  • Being masculine or feminine
  • Knowing what gender you are
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