SOC 152A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Peer Group, Gender Role
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Gender role behavior = all behaviors that males and females may do differently, besides sexual behaviors. Gender roles are what make males and females different outside of sex. Where males and females are two completely separate beings with different attitudes and actions. Androgyny meanings having both masculine and feminine interests and behaviors these people can also be called ambigendered. Gender roles are changing more rapidly in california. Participants were tested to see if they were traditional or androgynous. Participants were then paired with people who were like them traditional with traditional and androgynous with androgynous. In the traditional discussion, males and females were distant in interests and communication styles, and did not coordinate well. In the androgynous discussion, males and females got along very closely because they had similar interests and communication styles, finding it easy to interact and share. Androgynous people get along better as couples and have closer relationships because their interests overlap.
