Sexual selection classified by Darwin. In humans, intersexual selection applies, involving members of one sex choose who they want to mate with from the opposite sex. Women choose partners and men compete. Sexy sons’ hypothesis: relates to inter sexual selection, showing women choose their partner depending on what features he has. She chooses the most desirable characteristics that her offspring might inherit.
In western cultures divorce is more common and it’s acceptable for people to get married multiple times. However in non-western cultures divorce is frowned upon and is therefore much less common, which makes it appear that arranged marriages are better for long term relationships. A research study which involved using a questionnaire on people from different cultures to determine whether they felt happy in their relationship or not was performed. Using questionnaires is a cheap and easy way of gathering information for lots of people, however as western questionnaires were used we cannot be sure if the results for the non-western cultures are due to how those people actually felt or if its due to how the question can be answered as its culture bias. Also the participants could show social desirability if they are aware of what the investigators are looking for.
Value of wages have risen and more wives are working in paid employment, therefore are possibly seen as on the same level as the husband. Family allowances and sickness and unemployment benefits have reduced the extent of poverty which may lift the burden and create less stress. Reduction in family size from 5-6 children to under two, which creates less work for parents in looking after the children. Dunne criticises the belief that there is equality amongst heterosexual couples as she claims heterosexual couples base their relationships heavily on gender scripts which are essentially the typical expectations which males and females usually conform to. She contrasts the marriage of a heterosexual couple to that of a lesbian couple where gender scripts
Feminist theory is one of the major contemporary sociological theories, which analyzes the status of women and men in society with the purpose of using that knowledge to better women's lives. Feminist theorists have also started to question the differences between women, including how race, class, ethnicity, and age intersect with gender. Feminist theory is most concerned with giving a voice to women and highlighting the various ways women have contributed to society. There are four main types of feminist theory that attempt to explain the societal differences between men and women: Gender Differences: The gender difference perspective examines how women's location in, and experience of, social situations differ from men's. For example, cultural feminists look to the different values associated with womanhood and femininity as a reason why men and women experience the social world differently.
Today one may say marriage is taken more lightly than back during that time period because divorce is much more widely accepted today. This difference has a lot to do with the role of property and gender in marriage. In the 21st century marriage is much more equal among men and women; including property and power. In the 1800’s, men had a lot more power than women. Abbie Cory states, “Access to political, social, and economic power and resources was allotted along a hierarchical arrangement whereby upper and middle-class men dominated, while the access of women to such resources was much more limited and was achieved largely through their relationship with men” (1).
Gender refers to culturally constructed distinctions between femininity and masculinity. Individuals are born female or male but they become feminine or masculine through complex developmental processes that take many years to unfold. For example, women usually look after babies while men are the providers. The evolutionary approach argues that gender role division appears as an adaptation to the challenges faced by the ancestral humans in the EEA. Therefore, the role differences we observe are more of a product of our biological inheritance than acquired through socialisation.
This person may now live life as a man, or may feel that their gender identity can't be truly summed up by either of the two options we're usually given (male or female). (1, 2) • How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity? Men are often viewed as masculine and women as feminine. Although the these roles can bereversed, but is often frowned upon and made fun of in modern society by most people.Although this has changed in the past few years with more people becoming accepeting of masculine women and feminine men. • Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity?
This also suggests that gender roles are biological rather than cultural. Conformity is also related to culture, as there is a general consensus across cultures that women are more conformist than men. However, this difference varies across cultures: Berry et al. reported that differences in conformity between men and women are highest in tight, sedentary societies. This shows a cultural influence on gender role.
It concludes that strong male–male and female–female alliances have advantages for group survival because group members become emotionally connected (Rathus and Fichner-Rathus, 2011). There is evidence that sexual orientations run in families from genetics. Researchers have linked a region in the X
They have to deal with sexuality and advances from men based on their gender. They learn to cope and deal with motherhood and the trials that go along with having babies which sometimes can take tolls on their bodies even making them feel unwanted at times. That is why I would say that in general girls are better and smarter than boys even though they may not have the physical strength of boys they defiantly are the stronger minded due to their ability to adapt to or overcome most obstacles of life. Americans also hold many ideas about race. Some may believe in an old fashion way as “Only intermingle with your own kind”.