CHAPTER 5: GENDER

UZMAR IZMAEL BIN ZUBIRMUHAMMAD NOOR YUSRI BIN MOHAMAD DAUD

MUHAMAD SYAFIQ BIN ALWEEAMIRUL LUQMAN BIN NASIR

SYED MOHAMED FAREED BIN SYED HUSSIN

5.1 BIOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, COGNITIVE INFLUENCES ON GENDER.

GENDER

A) BIOLOGICAL

B) SOCIAL

C) COGNITIVE

Testosterone Estrogen

Hormonesi) FAMILY –

ii) PEERS –

iii) MASS MEDIA –

iv) SCHOOL

Gender Schema Theory

5.2 Gender Stereotypes,

Similarities and Differences

A) Gender Stereotyping

B) Gender

Similarities and

Differences

C) Gender Controversy

D) Gender in Context

- Physical- Cognitive - Emotional

- Emotions- Culture - Behavior

5.3 GENDER-ROLE CLASSFICATION5.3 A) Masculinity, Femininity, and Androgyny

a) Masculinity

b) Femininity

c) Androgyny

5.3 B) Context, Culture, and Gender Roles

5.3 C) Androgyny and Education• It easier to

teach androgyny to girls than boys and easier to teach it before the middle school grades

Education

5.3 D) Traditional Masculinity and

Problem Behaviour in Adolescent Boys

• Concern about the ways boy have been brought up in traditional way has been called “National Crisis of Boyhood”. (William Pollack)

• To often boy a socialized to not show their feeling and to act tough.

• Boy learns the boy code in many different context such as playground, schoolroom, camps, hang out, and sandboxes.

5.3 E) Gender-Role

Transcendence

• Some critics of androgyny say enough is enough and that there is too much talk gender.

• when an individual competent is an issue, it should be conceptualized on a person basis rather than on the basis of masculinity, femininity or androgyny.

• Parents should rear their children to be competent boys and girls, not masculine, feminine, or androgynous, say the gender-role critics.

5.4 Developmental Change And Juncture

5.4 Development Changes and

Juncture

i) Early Adolescence and

Gender Intensification

The Gender Intensification

Hypothesis

ii) Is Early Adolescence a

Critical Juncture for Girls?

Selfish (more independent and

self sufficient)

Selfless (responsive to

other)