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Discuss the way psychological research enables us to understand the development of gender roles.
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Discuss the way psychological research enables us to understand the development of gender roles One interpretation of gender is that it refers to the sociocultural aspect of being male or female, not just the physiological aspects that make up a gender. Every child develops a gender, and with this has to come a gender role, which is a set of expectations that prescribe how males and females should think, act and feel. Kohlberg's theory, suggests that people go through three stages in developing an understanding of gender. The first stage is basic gender identity, in which the child realizes he/she is a boy or a girl. The child then has to accept that he/she is a male/female forever, which happens in stage 2, gender stability. Little boys no longer think that are going to grow up to become mums, and little girls no longer think the can be the next superman....
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