Gender Roles: Even More Spin-Off

[Rhyfelwyr]

Agreed. Gender roles are social constructs enforced by society. The parents buy their daughter the Kitchen set and then buy their Son the action man and the kids are at that age where the only reason they do these is because their parents and what they are forced into by society.

I feel like I've been blasted into the 60's with this sociocultural analysis.

[HoreTore]

I feel like I've been blasted into the 60's with this sociocultural analysis.

.....and yet you yourself adhere to a functionalistic explanation, which was a thing of the 60's as well. 1860's, that is...

[Beskar]

I feel like I've been blasted into the 60's with this sociocultural analysis.

I do possess a Masters in Social Psychology which I only went into because I have a very social view of Identity, mainly because my studies in general Psychology (BSc) generally pointed me in that direction. There is a lot of neurological evidence supporting this line of thought as well, such as promising research in Mirror Neuron's. But that is enough of this digression.