Gender Roles and Stereotypes

Family as a bedrock of society

1. Why is the family considered to be the basic institution of any society?

2. What is traditional family?

3. What are the functions of the family in the society?

4. How do social scientists categorize the family structure?

5. Why is the family considered so important to individuals and society?

Parent-adolescent conflict: generation gap

1. What factors influence the increase of conflict between adolescents and parents?

2. What does much of the conflict involve?

3. How do parents usually react to the change of their children’s behavior?

4. When do things usually get better?

5. Why can the everyday conflicts that characterize parent-adolescent relationship actually serve a positive developmental function?

6. What do new model of understanding parent-adolescent conflict emphasize?

7. What is the generation gap and why do many families face it?

8. What do old people think of young people from generation to generation?

9. What do parents and teenagers usually argue about?

10. Whose guidance and advice do most teenagers rely on?

Gender Roles and Stereotypes

1. Why might the 1950s and the early 1960s be called “the era of the housewife” in the United States?

2. What are gender roles?

3. What attitudes do social norms construct and reinforce

4. What are gender stereotypes? Why do they help maintain gender roles?

5. How do gender roles and stereotypes influence one another?

6. What are major role conflicts?

7. Why do role conflicts pose special problems for women?

8. Why can the male role in modern society, despite its advantage in power and prestige, be a source of stress?

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