gender psychology - it is absolutely a new direction in the social sciences and humanities, it is just beginning its first steps and declares itself as an independent science in the field of psychological knowledge.Gender Psychology is responsible for the behaviors of people based on their belonging to a male or female.It deals with the study of such phenomena as samouvazhienie, socialization, prejudice, discrimination, self-perception and the emergence of various social norms and roles.The basis of gender psychology constitute the psychosocial development of personality and psychology of sex, these aspects define the structure of teaching.
Gender sociology engaged mainly sexual development of girls and boys, and the adequacy of the performance of gender roles.The bulk of the scientific papers on gender psychology is not engaged in the study of social inequality gender, nature of sex differences and varieties of psychological assessment between the sexes.
Initially, the concept of "sex" was meant to refer to the physiological characteristics of a person (male or female), considered the foundation of a person's gender and prevailed in determining the social and psychological differences between men and women.
Generally, men have a high ambition, rationality and independence, while women are considered more sensual, gentle, emotional and sociable.Such representations of women and men are very widespread in our culture.Gender Psychology based on the latest research claims that women and men are much more similarities than differences.The only clear distinction between the sexes lies in their role of procreation.Today, the physical differences between the sexes are quite vague as muscular and endurance is no longer a priority of the male population of the planet.For example, men from southeast Asia is much shorter than European women.
addition to the physiological divisions between people there is a division of forms of activities, social roles, the differences in behavior and temperament.Very often the biological sex does not quite match the emotional characteristics, and sometimes that is the complete opposite.Hence, there is the concept of "gender psychology" - that is, the science which studies the set of cultural and social norms, which are considered a privilege of either sex.In the end, not the biological sex of the person determines its activity and behavior, and socio-cultural norms influence the psychological characteristics of men and women.Being in a society woman or a man - it does not mean have certain anatomical structure of the body, it means scrupulously fulfill prescribed gender roles society.
In contrast to the psychology of sex, gender psychology is not just studying the psychological characteristics of men and women.At the center of its attention, first of all, the results of personal development, caused by the phenomenon of sexual stratification and differentiation.Gender Psychology primarily focuses on hierarchical status, roles and positions of men and women, while actively discussed the issue of discrimination and gender inequality.Gender Psychology, as well as gender linguistics, in contrast to the psychology of sex is characterized by different theoretical and methodological bases.For example, gender psychology is the basis of socio-constructivist paradigm, while psychology is considered to be the basis of sex biodetermenistskaya paradigm.
