EPSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Majority, Gender Role, Femininity
9 May 2020
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Describes traits regarded by most members of the american majority culture as being masculine or feminine. Most widely used measure of gender role perception. A cross-national study of young people in 30 countries found similar gender role perceptions with remarkable consistency (williams & best, Table 5. 1 masculine and feminine traits (from the bem sex role. Self-socialization of gender: cultural myths [about gender] become self-fulfilling prophecies (bem, 1981, p. 355): people apply gender schemas not just to the world around them but also to themselves (arnett, 2015, p. 137). Because adolescents" view of themselves are reflection of how they measure up to cultural expectations. Gender nonconforming : people who typically identify as either female or male but whose behaviors are androgynous to a degree that falls outside conventional norms. Transgender : people whose self-identification does not match their biological sex. Transsexual : people who experience a fundamental mismatch between their gender and their sex.
