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Community Social Psychology

Q Chapter 9. CTC Stereotypes of men often show them sacrificing themselves for women and children. Discuss how this tendency could have developed due to evolutionary instinct or advantage (nature)—or whether it could only have developed due to culture (nurture).

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The primary component of Stereotype is Beliefs which are a product of the cognitive faculty. We all have basically grown up learning that “men used to go out hunting to gather food for the family” and “woman used to take care of the home and children”. This concept later came to known as the Patriarchal society system where phrases like “man of the house”, “breadwinner”, “provider” that assigned the roles of men as “providers” and women as “nourisher”. This can be explained by the social role theory. Biologically speaking women are ones who gives birth to new life and men are stronger physically and thus the stereotyping of men making all the sacrifices for women and children (Heinzen & Goodfriend, p.274).