Roles!

Roles

• Within a family, people typically have different roles.

• Roles: The socially expected behavior pattern by a

person’s status in society.

• Some roles are based on..

• Gender

• Position of family members

• Period of life

• Other

Family Roles

• May include..

• Mother/Father

• Aunt/Uncle

• Sister/Brother

• Could also be..

• Caretaker

• Stay-at-home parent

• Cleaner

• Worker

• Etc.

Your Roles?

• Son/daughter

• Brother/sister

• Student

• Employee

• Friend

• These roles change over time, and some become more

important than others at different points of your life.

Understanding Gender

• "Sex" refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.

• "Gender" refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

Understanding Gender

• Gender identity is a person's private sense, and

subjective experience, of their own gender.

• . . . gender roles in the contemporary sex gender model

are socially constructed, always changing, and do not

really exist since, they are ideologies that society

constructs in order for various benefits at various times in

history.

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Gender Stereotypes

• Gender stereotypes are generalized and/or assembled

conceptualizations about people based on gender.

Stereotypes depict simplified and rigid view of others and

are centered on a limited number of characteristics.

Stereotypes create an impression that everyone in the

group has the same characteristics. Stereotypes create

expectations of what males and females should look like

and how they should think, feel, and act.

Traditional Roles/Stereotypes

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• Each envelope has a group of tasks.

• Place the traditional role under the person who would

have TRADITIONALLY completed that task.

Gender Roles - Traditional

• Mother = homemaker, stay at home,

raise kids, cook, clean, provides for

needs of family

• Father = head of the household,

works to provide an include, makes

choices regarding the family

Have Things Changed?

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• Marketing

• What do you think?

Negative?

• Is it bad to fall into typical gender roles?

• Is it important that we make all people feel equal?