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How do the different
agents of social control
create gender identities?
- FAMILY
- Canalisation
- Giving girls and boys gender specific toys.
Giving boys toy soldiers teaches them to be
stronger. 'Girls' toys like dolls and toy kitchens
teaches them to be caring and housewives etc.
- Giving girls and boys gender specific toys.
Giving boys toy soldiers teaches them to be
stronger. 'Girls' toys like dolls and toy kitchens
teaches them to be caring and housewives etc.
- Manipulation
- The way adults talk to their
children affects their gender
identities. For example "brave little
soldier" and "daddy's little princess"
teaches children that men should
be more dominant and women are
more delicate and dainty.
- The way adults talk to their
children affects their gender
identities. For example "brave little
soldier" and "daddy's little princess"
teaches children that men should
be more dominant and women are
more delicate and dainty.
- Social control
- Boys are allowed to spend more time out of
the house, where as girls tend to be more
controlled. This teaches children that girls
are much more unsafe and can be easily
manipulated (whereas boys can defend
themselves).
- Boys are allowed to spend more time out of
the house, where as girls tend to be more
controlled. This teaches children that girls
are much more unsafe and can be easily
manipulated (whereas boys can defend
themselves).
- Canalisation
- EDUCATION
- Subject choices
- Girls and boys choose different types of
subjects e.g. graphics, resistant materials,
food technology etc.
- Girls and boys choose different types of
subjects e.g. graphics, resistant materials,
food technology etc.
- Careers advice
- Teachers may give boys and
girls different careers advice. For
example they might give advice
for a girl to take childcare and/or
be a teacher.
- Teachers may give boys and
girls different careers advice. For
example they might give advice
for a girl to take childcare and/or
be a teacher.
- Treatment by
techers
- Teachers are sometimes stricter on
girls as they expect them to be more
obedient. This teaches boys that they
are allowed to be more disobedient.
- Teachers are sometimes stricter on
girls as they expect them to be more
obedient. This teaches boys that they
are allowed to be more disobedient.
- Subject choices
- WORKPLACE
- Unequal pay
- On average, men earn more
money than women.
- On average, men earn more
money than women.
- Equal pay
- The law says that men and women should
be paid equally for doing the same job
- The law says that men and women should
be paid equally for doing the same job
- Heirarchy
- Men often have more powerful jobs
than the women. This teaches
children that men usually have a
higher status and are the main wage
earners.
- Men often have more powerful jobs
than the women. This teaches
children that men usually have a
higher status and are the main wage
earners.
- Unequal pay
- PEER GROUP
- Peer pressure
- People feel the pressure to conform to
the expected rues, norms and values of
society.
- Sue Lees found that in schools if a male had many
sexual relations then he gained a lot of respect
however if a woman had many sexual relation then
she would be called names e.g. a slag.
- Sue Lees found that in schools if a male had many
sexual relations then he gained a lot of respect
however if a woman had many sexual relation then
she would be called names e.g. a slag.
- People feel the pressure to conform to
the expected rues, norms and values of
society.
- Subcultures
- Male and female peer groups have very
different norms and values.
- Male and female peer groups have very
different norms and values.
- Peer pressure
- MEDIA
- Body image
- Celebrities are often show as having
the 'perfect' body image
- Are you beach body ready?
- Are you beach body ready?
- Celebrities are often show as having
the 'perfect' body image
- Representations of
gender
- On TV men and women are often shown in very
different roles, shows women cleaning and
shows men doing gardening and DIY.
- Fairy liquid advert, #likeagirl, #girlscan,
- Fairy liquid advert, #likeagirl, #girlscan,
- On TV men and women are often shown in very
different roles, shows women cleaning and
shows men doing gardening and DIY.
- Body image
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