Explain How Conformity to Stereotypical Gender Roles Impacts Individuals and Violence

question 148

Essay

Explain how conformity to stereotypical gender roles impacts individuals and violence.

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Definitions:

Cohort

A group of people born at around the same time in the same place.

Unconscious

Pertaining to the part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behaviors and emotions.

Superego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and authority figures.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the psyche that mediates between the primal desires of the id and the moral demands of the superego.