1. Developing Friendships in Adulthood - Men and Women
Everyone is socialized through media to understand his or her gender role, and how to behave while in that role. ... I couldn't help but compare my research to this book, because men and women are given social roles based off of their gender. ... Goffman would state that she was not validating her social role as a woman because she is not using the social norms given to her gender role by being less feminine. Chodorow had a connection with feminine and masculine roles in gender identities, which I think relates to platonic heterosexual cross-sex relationships and their difficulty to wo...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate