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Write short note: Change in sex roles and the socialisation of children.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Systems of Kinship

Sex roles (now usually called gender roles) are the socially expected behaviours attached to being male or female. They are learnt, not inborn: Margaret Mead's study of three New Guinea societies (Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, 1935) found "masculine" and "feminine" temperaments distributed differently in each. Because children learn gender mainly by watching…

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  • How sex roles were traditionally transmitted
  • What changes when adult roles change
  • What persists
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