2nd Exam for Cultural Diversity F2005
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Sex
- physical differences of the body aka nature
- Gender
- psychological, social, and cultural differences aka nurture
- Patriarchy
- society dominated by men
- Matriarchy
- society dominated by women
- Gender Inequality
- difference in the STATUS, POWER, and PRESTIGE women and men have in society
- Brannon's Traditional Male Components
- "give em hell"-men should be powerful through violence
- Is Masculinity Dangerous to your health?
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high rates of:
HEART DISEASE
HOMICIDE
SUICIDE - THE SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY: Strauss & Baron and Zillman found that
- there are links between pornography and rape rates and self-reported propensity for rapes
- Feminists see rape as
- means of enforcing gender roles as a form of domincance and control
- The circulation index for the magazines
- the strongest predictor of rape rates
- Desensitization effect
- highest among viewers of non-aggressive pornography
- Prolonged consumption of pornography
- promoted incessitivity to victims of: LOW-SEXUAL ASSULT, STRONGEST-RAPE, MILD- DESENSITIZED
- GROTH AND BIRNBAUM (1979)
- Porn is the media equivalent to rape..."Porn is the theory, rape is the practice."
- Aker's Social Learning Theory
- the attitudes and beliefs of a group will affect the individual's DEFINITION OF THE SITUATION and moral attitudes.
- symbolic interaction and social scripts
- individuals learn tot pick up on shared meanings of symbols and use social scripts to navigate through the situation in a sort of role play
- Imitation
- learning of behavior through observing and copying (1st way we learn)
- Sutherland's Theory of differential Association
- process by which one is exposed to normative definitions, favorable or un, to illegal or law abiding behavior
- Useful Theoretical Perspectives
- Aker's and Sutherland's
- Modalities of association
- how long and to what extent will have an effect on whether or not the definitions are internalized
- Research on Psychological Development has shown
- the use of melody strenthens learning capabilities
- Pornography is the media equivalent to rape:
- then, violent music is the audio equivalent to porn
- Billboard.com's categorization of "modern rock"
- 3 areas
- common/mild
- use of words like "bitch" and reference to mild violence (kicking and slapping)
- objectifying/degrading but non-violent
- themes include women portrayed as objects
- explicit (violent or sexual)
- songs include stalking, raping, and murdering
- Findings
- Parallels between porn and alt.rock, 3 themes, lyrics mirror porn scripts for women, lyrics verbal recount, shared climax point is acting out of aggression towards women