SOC265H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mark Zuckerberg, Brainpower, Post-Structuralism
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Connell says that what we learn through [child] socialization we learn gender competence [as girls/boys] problems with this theory: We don"t produce two different kinds of people in this society: social inequality has other sources. If you show people [university students] something tragic (may be a picture, story, etc. ), ask them to write down how they"re feeling. Results: girls are more emphatic than guys more concerned: sex of the psychologist conducting the study it affects results. If it is a girl psych, makes girls more emphatic. If boy, either no change or boys more emphatic: results if the people don"t think they are being observed (2-way mirror): no gender differences. There"s no internal personality difference between boys and girls: conclusion. Shift in focus is from types of people and personality to the social expectation of people which influences their behaviour.
