PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 88: Psy, Social Stratification, Social Cognitive Theory
17 Dec 2019
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Notes: evolutionary psychology view, emphasizes that adaptation during the evolution of humans produce psychological differences between males and females. Argue that primarily because of their differing roles in reproduction, males and females faced different pressures in primeval environments when the human species was evolving. Having multiple liaisons improves likelihood that males will pass on their genes, natural selection favored males who adopted short-term mating strategies. Males competed with other males to acquire more resources in order to access females: males evolved dispositions that favor violence, competition, and risk taking. Social influences: social role theory: states that psychological gender differences result from the constrasting roles of women and men. In most cultures, women have less power than men do and control less resources. Women perform more domestic work, spend fewer hours in paid employment, receive lower pay, and are more thinly represented in the highest levels of organizations.
