CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Social Construction Of Gender, Longitudinal Study

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P38
• Professor: Thomas O' Neill

Document Summary

Socialization theories emphasize how social norms are inculcated in individual children. Talcott parsons (1995) a child is like a pebble thrown by the fact of birth into a social pond. Social norms subdue innate sexual and aggressive drives. Patri(cid:272)ia alder (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1006)(cid:895) des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)es ge(cid:374)der so(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374) as a pro(cid:272)ess of i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)alizi(cid:374)g (cid:862)idealized ge(cid:374)der i(cid:373)ages(cid:863) Based on extensive longitudinal study in us schools. Popularity for boys was achieved by internalizing a cult of masculinity that comprised of physicality, defiance of adult authority, domination of others. Popularity for girls meant internalizing a culture of compliance and conformity, culture of romance and ideology of domesticity. Socialization theory focused on functionality of gender norms. Social reproduction theorists focused on how norms reproduce social (gender) inequality. Through patriarchal, women play a key role in maintaining affective dimensions that are cohesive and persistent. Feminist scholars critical of the suggestion that the dominated collude in their own domination.