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Using Mead’s theory of symbolic interactionism, discuss the stages in the formation of gender identity.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Sociological Thinkers

Gender identity is a person's sense of themselves as a woman, a man or another gender. George Herbert Mead (Mind, Self and Society, 1934) never wrote about gender. His account of the self nonetheless maps how it is learnt. Names, dress, toys, kinship terms and praise act as significant symbols. Through them a child comes…

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  • Stages of gender identity through Mead's lens
  • Limits of the Meadian account
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