Sociologist Nancy Chodorow asked the question, “Why do women mother?” Describe the process by which women choose to “mother” and men choose to “not mother,” according to Chodorow.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Infants of both sexes form bond to mother. Mothers push sons away emotionally, and they then develop “masculine” personalities. Drawn from society, as father is absent. Develops as “nonfemininity.” Mothers draw daughters in more closely, and they then come to identify with mothers. Become relational, seeking close bonds and defining themselves through relationships. Men define themselves autonomously and have harder time forming close bonds. Rooted in socialization and psychology: pain of break results in avoidance of future bonds. Men in heterosexual relationships unprepared for close relational bonding. Women mother in order to reproduce connection with someone else. Devaluation of the feminine occurs on the macrolevel.
Compare and contrast the characteristics of nuclear versus extended families. Discuss how these categorizations may be rigid and not all encompassing and provide a few examples.
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A) race and ethnicity B) sex C) religion D) sexual orientation
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A. Pierre exhibits hegemonic masculinity. B. Gender performance is static based on one's upbringing. C. Masculinity is fluid and how it is performed can vary across social settings. D. We merge gendered expectations with those of other intersectional statuses.
Which of the following are the two key sources of evidence that are commonly used to support the social constructionist perspective?
a. historical and cross-cultural comparisons b. nurture and nature arguments c. biological and evolutionary arguments d. racial and gender intersections