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Tue 20 Nov, 2012 05:54 am
Some immediate precedents for the idea women should not (1)______ achieve too much academically can be seen in high school, for this is(2)____ here that the performance of girls begins to decrease drastically. (3)_____
It is also at this time that peer group pressures on sex role behavior increase and conceptions of what is "properly feminine" or
"masculine" become more narrow. One need only recall Asch's experiments to see how peer group pressures, coupling with our rigid (4)_____
ideas about "feminity" and "masculinity" , could lead to the ressults
found by Horner, Lipinski, and Pierce. Asch found that some 33%
of his subjects would go contrary to the evidence of their own sense
about something so tangible as the comparative length of two lines(5)_____ when their judgments were at variance with that made by other (6)______ group members. All but a handful of other 67% experienced (7)______ tremendous trauma in trying to stick to their correct perceptions. These experiments are suggestive of how powerful a group can be in
posing its own definition of a situation and suppressing the (8)_____ resistance of individual deviants. When we move to something as intangible as sex role behavior and to social sanctions far greater than simply
the displeasure of a group of unknown experimental stooges,we
can get an idea of how stifling social expectations should be. It is not(9)___ surprising, in light of our cultural norm that a girl should not appear
too smart or surpass boys in anything, those pressures to conform, (10)____ so prevalent in adolescence, prompt girls to believe that .......
@Jasmine1021,
I don't understand the required task, Jasmine.