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research support

  • support role of hormones in development of sex and gender as he studied transgender individuals undergoing hormone therapy and found a direct link of the hormones and impact of behaviour
  • established cause and effect
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  • too much emphasis on role of nature
  • although social learning theory states you can be socialised into being a male or female, the real life case study of David Reiner refutes this as he went back to his biological sex
  • biological explanation (nature) can not easily explain cross cultural differences and is therefore biologically reductionist, ignores role of nurture
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real life case study- David Reimer

  • One twin had accident during circumcision surgery, doctor said to bring him up as a little girl has doctor believed that children could be socialised to become a particular gender, David found out truth and return to biological sex, psychologically and emotionally scarred by this experience and committed suicide
  • strength because it supports the role of chromosomes and hormones in sex and gender
  • anatomy is destiny so role of nature is more important than nurture
  • it is an ideographic case study so generalisation is not possible