Essays Tagged: "Ann Oakley"
The concept of social identity, social class,gender and ethnicity.
istic fallacy, which is because of their genes males and females must act or respond in a specific manner. For example they would claim females are "cloy" and males are "aggressive".Ethnicity is a sen ... what part of the world they came from. However various people have proved such expectations wrong. Ann Oakley (1972) firmly believed that the culture of a society is what determines the type of behav ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Gender-role socilization. this essay is about how society and biological drives and instincts shape the gender roles.
isms, it defines the roles that we as males or females in society are expected to play.According to Ann Oakley, who first introduced the terms, sex refers to the biological divisions into being male o ... aspects that determine social behavior and ignoring the fact that some sexual drives may be innate.Ann Oakley outlines how socialization in modern societies shapes the behavior of boys and girls from ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Explain the concept of socialization and how useful is it in understanding human behavior?
ee socialization as a tool in justifying the privilege of a particular group in society namely men. Ann Oakley believed that gender role stereotyping as being transmitted through manipulation, canaliz ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
How has the transition to modern society changed women's lives?
e social structure, from paid work to the household divisions of labour, from sexuality to violence.Ann Oakley (1981) has traced the changing status of women in British society from the eve of the Ind ... as 'the dominant mature feminine role' Thus a combination of factors which included ideology, the banning of child labour, and restrictions of the employment of women, locked the majority of married ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Gender
hildcarer which allows the men to go out and work, therefore keeping capitalism in force. Feminist, Ann Oakley (1974) stated that all paid work is simply an extension of the work women do at home: chi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Are Married Women Working Too Hard?
usework as well as most of the emotional support, this idea can be supported in present society. In Ann Oakley's study the Sociology of Housework in 1970's only 15% of marriages did men have a high le ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
What do you understand by the concept of employment?
uch as cooking, cleaning and maintaining the home is work the same as any other kind of employment, Ann Oakley 1974 (see A.Giddens 2001)If I continue to look at the concept of employment but take a mu ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Analyse and assess the contribution of feminist research to our understanding of society.
cribes the weak thesis. Eichler's non-sexist research has also helped our understanding of society. Ann Oakley and post-modern feminists perspective on society have also helped our understanding of so ... n and women. For example until recently social mobility studies in Britain were based solely on men.Ann Oakley's perspective on society has contributed a lot to our understanding of society. She argue ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology