Freud
In "Boys and girls: The development of gender roles," Beale gives us
revealing overview of Freud's personality theory. Beale point out both
strengths and weaknesses of his answer to the questions of "Why" and "How"
in gender development, but still leaves a chance for a reader to make up
her/his own mind about whether or not to accept Freud's theory. It is
relatively easy, however, to find oneself torn between openheartedly going
along with …
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…broader social cues, and to overestimate children's cognitive
capabilities during the preoperational stage and the impact of the
child-parent relationship on children's gender development. There is no
doubt that Freud gave us some priceless insight into human personality
development. However, by postulation that development of one's gender in the
particular way he describes is inevitable, he leaves us, on this verge of
the 21st century, very little reason not to contradict him.
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