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Influence of Culture and Media
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Cards (3)
Support for
changing
gender roles
Hofstede
- in
industrialised
cultures, changing
expectations
are due to changing
roles
Women entering the
workplace
and men staying
home
more
Breakdown of
stereotypes
, unchanged in
traditional
societies
Methodological issues
Freeman
- studied
Samoan
people and said Mead was
misled
by her participants
Mead's
preconceptions
influenced her reading of events (
observer bias
and
ethnocentricism
)
Therefore, Mead's
interpretations
may not have been
objective
Criticism for cultural mate choice
Buss - surveyed
10,000 adults
in
37
countries for mate choice
Found men and women looked for
stereotypical features
, regardless of
economic
development
Therefore, Eagly and Wood may have a
biological bias