Topic > Gender Development Theory - 1249

In a child's developing brain, internal stimuli pursue certain gender representations through action. Through these various tests, the child is able to sculpt his own personal gender constancy and gender schema. Ultimately, this helps determine the child's views on feminine and masculine characteristics. DEVELOPMENT OF GENDER IN CULTURE. Cultural aspects provide various insights and influences from biological and interpersonal factors, regarding numerous gender roles of women and men. In particular, cultures manipulate and sculpt the young minds of individuals, within that particular society. Through anthropology and symbolic interactionism, cultures tend to shape the young minds and attitudes of members of that society. Anthropology. Through the study of human beings, anthropology allows us to collect the legacy of past decades, centuries and finally millennia. “To understand the full scope and complexity of cultures throughout human history, anthropology draws on and builds on knowledge from the social and biological sciences, as well as the human and physical sciences” (What is Anthropology?,