Title: Social Role Theory - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Social Role Theory
Social Role Theory
Small-group Interaction and Gender
2.1 Social Role Theory
Social role and life course theories
Spillover
The Role of Gender in Educational Contexts and Outcomes
1.3 Sociocultural Theory
Introduction
Social role and life course theories
Needs and Justice
Other Kinds of Theories of Need
Gender Differences in Personality and Social Behavior
2.2 Helping Behavior and Altruism
Gender Issues
Cultural Factors
Mate Selection
Perspectives
Biosocial Construction of Sex Differences and Similarities in Behavior
4.3 Actual change in gender stereotypes
The Agentic–Communal Model of Advantage and Disadvantage: How Inequality Produces Similarities in the Psychology of Power, Social Class, Gender, and Race
8.3 Social Role Processes

Content: their experience of six physical symptoms (e.g., headache, stomach ache); and their sleep quality. The measurement approach links experiences for the mother at her workplace to her child’s perceptions of the mother when she returns home as well as the child’s own emotional and physical well-being on that day. The daily report limits reliance on global memories and generalizations about perceptions of mothers’ moods or child’s moods. What is more, the daily diary approach captures fluctuations over days, providing an opportunity to determine how much variability there is in the mother’s workplace experiences and how that may impact the child’s emotional and physical health. View chapter Purchase book
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The Role of Gender in Educational Contexts and Outcomes
Jennifer Petersen, Janet Shibley Hyde, in Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 2014
1.3 Sociocultural Theory
Sociocultural theory, also called social structural theory or social role theory, was proposed by Eagly and Wood (1999). According to this view, a society's division of labor by gender drives all other gender differences in behavior. That is, for example, women's greater nurturance is a result of, rather than the cause of, their assignment to caring for children. Psychological gender differences result from individuals’ adaptations to the particular roles to which they are assigned as well as the roles that are proscribed.