Social influence on Gender - studies

Here is the presentation from this lesson.

¡Litton and Romney (1991) – Meta-analysis of parental treatment of boys and girls aged 6 found girls more encouraged to do household chores, boys outdoor tasks.

¡Seagel (1987) – fathers more likely to react negatively when sons carried out feminine behaviour.

¡Smith and Lloyd (1978) – babies in unisex snow-suits given different names are treated differently by carers (reinforcement of play etc).

¡Fagot (1985) – boys more likely to be criticised by peers for feminine activities.

¡Morgan (1982) – more TV correlates with stronger sex-typed identity.

¡Fagot et al (1982) – parents how show the clearest patterns of differential reinforcement have children who are quickest to develop strong gender preferences.

For each of these track it down in a textbook or online (search by name and date and you should be able to find all of them) and add some more detail to the brief outline of method and findings here. For our next lesson, whenever that may be!