SAQ Quiz

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

set of ideas, behaviors, attitudes, and traditions that exist within large groups of people

Question 2

Gender roles

Answer 2

set of social and behavioral norms associated with one’s gender.

Question 3

Margaret Mead

Answer 3

• Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
• Arapesh temperament for both genders was gentle, responsive, and cooperative.
• Mundugumor both genders were violent and aggressive.
• Tchambuli women were dominant and impersonal, men less responsible and emotionally dependent.

Question 4

Mead link

Answer 4

• gender roles are not necessarily predetermined by the biology of the individual
• culture can determine the society’s norms for each gender.

Cultural conditioning

Question 5

socializing agents

Answer 5

play a key role in modeling for children appropriate behavior, as well as directly teaching them what is appropriate behaviour within the society

Question 6

Condry and condry aim

Answer 6

determine if adults communicate sex differences to children indirectly through their language and behavior.

Question 7

Condry and condry link

Answer 7

• parental interpretation in line with what the cultural norms of that child’s gender expects.
• western cultures like where the study was done (NY) associated masculinity with anger and femininity with fear, they interpreted the boy’s crying as anger and the girl’s crying as fear.

Question 8

Adolescence

Answer 8

the transitional period between childhood and adulthood

Question 9

Identity

Answer 9

the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person.

Question 10

Ferron aim

Answer 10

investigate possible cultural differences in the way adolescents relate to bodily changes in puberty.

Question 11

Ferron link

Answer 11

The Americans who resented the physical change are more likely to develop guilty and shame around their bodies, whereas the French who accept the changes occuring are less likely to.

Question 12

Erickson stage theories

Answer 12

• 8 stages
• each stage presents individual with a psychosocial crisis that can positively or negatively impact identity development.
• Stage 5 Identity vs Role Confusion.
• teens search for a sense of identity & body image changes.
• claims that the teen may feel uncomfortable about their body until they can adapt to the changes.
• Success confident belief system.
• Failure to adapt role confusion which leads to a negative development of identity.

Question 13

Role confusion

Answer 13

Uncertainty to define oneself

Question 14

Erickson link

Answer 14

• adapts to their changing body then they will establish a strong sense of identity,
• fail leads to role confusion & not know where they fit into society/may develop bad habits.

Question 15

Condry & condry summary

Answer 15

showed participants a video of a child. For some participants they said it was a boy, for others a girl.

• questionnaire about the children.
• when the boy began to cry, was seen as anger; when the girl began to cry, it was seen as fear. Anger being seen as a more masculine response. When asked to describe the children, the boy was more active and stronger than the girl.

Question 16

Ferron summary

Answer 16

Americans didn’t accept biological predisposition of the body shape and still found it possible to obtain perfect body. More likely to suffer from self blame and guilt and adopt eating
-Less French believed they could obtain the perfect body, body can’t be modified and is genetically determined.