Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Gender Attitudes in Children Age Three to Seven
Autor: | V. E. Kagan |
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Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Zdroj: | Russian Education & Society. 43:52-59 |
ISSN: | 1558-0423 1060-9393 |
DOI: | 10.2753/res1060-9393430652 |
Popis: | The gender aspects of childhood are attracting increasing attention on the part of psychologists. Analysis of the discussion that followed the publication of E. Maccoby's and C. Jacklin's monograph [10] shows that the dichotomy between the biological and social components has become obsolete. Environmental influences are an essential condition for the unfolding of genetic potential to the same extent that innate programs are an essential point where environmental influences apply. R. Green's classic longitudinal study, and studies carried out in connection with it [5-7], have shown that it is worthwhile to move away from the search for a single, universal explanation to a systemic phenomenology that reveals the inner structure of the issue. The hypothesis of the present study is that formation of gender does not proceed via an arithmetic cumulation of the results of processes of imitation information, the social and behavioral learning of development [8; 9; 11], but rather in the framework of a unitary, i... |
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