Social Learning Theory As Applied To Gender Development The Importance Of Media And Culture On Gender Roles Flashcards
What is Banduras social learning theory
This emphasises the parents peers and made it figures at as gender appropriate models where children based their behaviour and to contribute to children’s commissioner is about gender
What are three ways of learning
Vicarious reinforcement, direct reinforcement, direct tuition
What is vicarious reinforcement
Where children observe the consequences of other behaviours and model their own behaviour on the way in which they observed think positively reinforced
What is direct reinforcement
Children may be directly reimport all punished for behave in certain ways this will implement the likelihood of this behaviour being repeated
Direct tuition
Children are being directly instructed about appropriate gender roles and behaviour
What is Williamses study
He said the three towns no tell, unitel an multitel it felt that Novatel and uni tell had less sex typed behaviours and attitudes from children. Children were reassessed after two years after the introduction of TV in no tel and found that the behaviour is were significantly more sex tight. This shows that media and media stereotypes has a profound effect on how children think about their own and other genders
What pressure has been put on program makers after Williamses study
They have pressure to present females and males in non-gender type of ways to encourage women to pursue careers which are typically defined as male careers such as doctors or lawyers
How is the study of presenting women and mail as non-tender stereotypes questionable
It was found that boys exposed to the six approach is based on the stereotypes as a backlash from feminists attempts to engineer gender quality
What are cultural similarities shown by Monroe
Found that all societies have a gender division of labour such as food preparation and childcare being carried out by females as a result of them being socialise towards behaviours such as compliance nurturance Wants ability and obedience where is Mail affect our independence and self-reliance and self achievement
What does Williams study show about cultural similarities
Willing to go to 2800 students in 30 countries a list of 300 adjectives and asked them to sign it adjective as either being male or female men were seen as more dominant aggressive and Oughton know Minnis where is females were more natural and defferebt and interested in affiliationstating that there are universal gender stereotypes about male female characteristics
What are the problems with the cultural similarities studies
Participants had to select either male or female equal category secondly, the sample were at university graduates therefore and representative and similar in terms of social class background and cultural influences
What is meads study about cultural differences
This is a study in Papa New Guinea claiming that will between gender roles between tribes
The Arapesh both genders gentle and cooperative
