evaluating gender socialisation

• REDUCTIONIST

  } Dabbs - inmates who committed violent crimes = highest testosterone levels

  > most of inmates with lowest levels - committed non-violent crime

  - sug - m commit different types of crime

  - can be explained by bio factors
• CHIVALRY HYPOTHESIS - code for knights = m protect f

  - m may not commit more crime than f > may be more likely to face prosecution and be put in prison

  } Pollak - men working in justice system tend to have chivalrous attitude

  > more protective, less severe, more likely to let off and less likely to impose harsher sentence

  } Carten - w = less likely to be imprisoned if viewed as good mother

  - official stats that m commit more crime = may be distorted

  - f could commit just as much but treated more leniently
• USEFUL APPLICATIONS - modifying cb in m

  } Man Up Project - prisons + community settings

  > aim - challenge attitudes and -ve outcomes experienced by men as a result of wanting/needing to fulfil stereotypes + expectations

  > designed to support men to explore ways in which the concept of masculinity contributes to shaping individual identity

  - val to exp > shows theory can be implemented in real world by challenging aggressive stereotypes m = socialised to

  - useful implications for society + economy in reducing cb
• OUTDATED

  - exp doesn't bare much resemblance to modern society

  > soc changed and traditional gender roles no longer prevail

  > many parents strive to avoid raising children in stereotypical ways

  > media - aim - represent m + f in wider range of roles

  - may no longer offer useful exp in modern society